Agnes Repplier Quotes, Humor Quotes, Essence Quotes

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

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The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

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I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand

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Gita and Ganga constitute the essence of Hinduism; one its theory and the other its practice.

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Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

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Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

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The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private.

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The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it.

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The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

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The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al

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growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy.

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The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.

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My friends are me and in essence better than me, they help me be better even when they don't know it.

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The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

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Choice is the essence of ethics: if there were no choice there would be no ethics, no good, no evil; good and evil have meaning only insofar as man is free to choose.

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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

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The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

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All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

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