Endowment Quote by Alfred de Musset Download Open image “Repartee is altogether a natural endowment, and is the lightning of the mind.” — Alfred de Musset ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Endowment Lightning Mind Natural Natural endowment Nature Psychology Repartee
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility. — Plato Copy Share Image
Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Let me give you a definition in brief. Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“During the wars of the Empire, while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and neurotic generation.… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“As soon as we entered I plunged into the giddy whirl of the waltz. That delightful exercise has always been dear to me; I… — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
As all the perfumes of the vanished dayRise from the earth still moistened with the dewSo from my chastened soul beneath thy rayOld love… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm was brewing,… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“Your name, merely your name, floods my brain to a point of sweet disgust.” — Alfred De Musset Copy Share Image
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated. — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The world will not give you an endowment for your finger-painting. Your finger-painting may be marvelous, but our government and society do not value… — Sara Benincasa Copy Share Image
That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be… — David Selby Copy Share Image
“Love can be a natural endowment, a present, or a gift. If it is not just a donation, it can be a divine talent.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Freedom is not just something with which we are born; it is something we achieve. America did not receive a perpetual endowment of freedom;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates… — Robert Atkins Copy Share Image
