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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity of loss…
— Mark Doty
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Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.
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Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.
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It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side…
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Stated as an English sentence, of course, this is just a banal platitude-but the fact is that, in the day-to-day trenches of…
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