Blind as a child, Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers--regained his sight at the age of fifteen and became a voracious reader.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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reason , the one conceiving of the saving power , as an emanation of divine
wisdom , and having been taught that logic was the law of reason and the touch -
stone of truth , imagined that the Greek dialectics were the form of all divine ...
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It is impossible to find it outside the divine sphere, as it is impossible to find
absolute truth and goodness outside of that ... in an exact correspondence
between beauty, goodness, and truth, imagined as related emanations of
transcendence.
Author: Gabriela Cruz
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But the slow much , and therefore she said nothing , and teaching of the Spirit , “
guiding into all truth , ” imagined there ... The seed , it is said any of those pretty
things ' that little true , was being sown in the bright morning of children often do .
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Lamentations 3. 26. He shall Wait ( and be Silent ) for the Salvation of the Lord . 6
. Observe , here the Scripture exprefly men• tioneth Silent Waiting , or Waiting in
Silence . Let the Opposers and Adversaries of Truth confider this . Lamentacions
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A man mentioned by Pinel , who had become insane during the French
Revolution , imagined that he had been guillotined , —that the judges had
changed their mind after the sentence was executed , and had ordered his head
to be put on ...
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Having just spoken of an abiding of divine these truths are when taken in their
strict God in ... Faith in the fact that spirit is truth , imagined that such a notion is a
mere concert of is undoubtedly the basis of all consistent piety . the fancy .
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Faith in the fact that spirit is truth , imagined that such a notion is a mere concert
of is undoubtedly the basis of all consistent piety . the fancy . Here again ,
therefore , as in iii . 24 , he John assumes in this verse that we can have a
expressly ...
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Maximilian of Bavaria detested him , for he considered him as his rival ; Richelieu
, true to his policy of reducing the power ... as it is unexpected ; you come from
Ratisbon , I presume , where I in truth imagined you to be now , deep in business
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The officials , unable as usual to believe the truth , imagined that I was
proceeding to Batang , and had prepared a small army of observation to
accompany me . 4.- Return to Yachon . Ya Chia Col. I returned to Yachon by the
Ya Chia Col ...
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That holds an abstract conception of truth , imagined under the form of
mathematical equality or identity . It has no place for development or organic
process , and none for comprehension of concrete experience which it vainly
tries to force into ...
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... the Princess Marguerite took no one into her confidence in regard to what had
occurred after they had left the salon , those whose conjectures were nearest the
truth imagined that the generous givers of jewels and gowns were envoys of the ...
Author: Alexandre Dumas
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... to be her partner . While dancing she had been unaware of her husband ' s
presence , and had not thought of him . When he had first come to her she had in
Bu as are truth imagined that he had been frightened THE KAPPA - KAPPA . 217.
Author: Anthony Trollope
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A Mr . Baldwin , in 1795 , our consul at Alexandria , in search of what he called
the Divinity of Truth , imagined he had found it in this new and mystical science .
Always seeking for fitting subjects , a cunning Arab long served his purpose on ...
Author: Isaac Disraeli
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The earlier philosophers of Greece , misled by erroneous views with respect to
the mode of discovering truth , imagined that it would be inconsistent with the
dignity.of the human mind , to recognise any alliance between the lofty
speculations ...
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him by default at the Tribunal of Commerce . Coralie , his mistress , having no
idea of the truth , imagined that Lucien had accommodated his brotherin - law ;
she gave him all the documents together , too late . An actress sees too many
actors ...
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If any one upon the former occasion , in ignorance of the truth , imagined them to
be harmless and inoffensive persons , I wish to read you evidence of their
character , furnished by witnesses whom they have injured . To tell it you in my
speech ...
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... and runners were sent to dodge behind rocks after me when I went out
shooting . The officials , unable as usual to believe the truth , imagined that I was
proceeding to Batang , and had prepared a small army of observation to
accompany me ...
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... whenever sleep overtook him ; and as for his food , the delicate , unsubstantial
diet of the East was easily provided by Zadski's one confidential servant , Hebro ;
but the western understanding , not able to see the truth , imagined a miracle .
Author: Stanley Waterloo
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Then he became conscious of a higher truth , and was right in acknowledging it .
... This might have been imagined at the beginning of Christianity , when one faith
appeared possible ; but in our time , when by our sides we can see people of ...
Author: graf Leo Tolstoy
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