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The Discourses
«An essayist is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted»
Author: Charles Poore
| Keywords:
discourse, discourses, discoursing, essayist, essayists, interrupted, interrupting, interrupts, lucky, The Discourses
«There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Learning
| Keywords:
discourses, frequently, The Discourses, unexpected
«I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
discourse, discourses, discoursing, engender, Engendered, engendering, engenders, guilt, hence, recipient, recipients, The Discourses
«Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
clear, discourse, discourses, discoursing, meditation, meditations, profound, reading, The Discourses
«And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in the river Ganges ; and suppose that someone else, after taking from this discourse on dharma but one stanza of four lines,»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
as many, belongings, Dharma, discourse, discourses, discoursing, Ganges, grains, lines, renounce, sand, Subhuti, The Discourses, The River
«Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
awkwardness, barrier, discourses, discoursing, disenfranchised, embarrassment, embarrassments, gracious, Here I Am, shuts, sweet talk, talk to me, The Discourses, The Embarrassment, the senses, The Sweet, Utopia, Utopias
«Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
balm, chagrin, disappointment, discourses, discoursing, dull, refuge, satiety, sequel, The Discourses, universal, welcome
«Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
discourse, discourses, discoursing, gentleness, good shape, liberality, salt, season, spice, spiced, The Discourses
«All these woes shall serveFor sweet discourses in our time to come.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
discourses, discoursing, In Our Time, The Discourses, time to come, woes
«A kindOf excellent dumb discourse.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
discourse, discourses, discoursing, dumb, The Discourses
