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«Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them»
«Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years; it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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«He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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abided, abides, abide by, Abide With Me, cherish, cherishing, gone, memory, nay, nays, potent
«Do when ye may, or suffer ye the nay, in love 'tis the way»
«Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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disorganization, loose, nay, nays, organization, true to
«One orator in a family, nay even in a city, is enough»
«It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
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difficulty, extremely, nay, nays, objections, oration, orations, produce, raise, troublesome
«The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the NT, were voted by yeas and nays to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the Popish councils of Nicea and Laodocia, about 1,450 years ago.»
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