"Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the……" — James Boswell
"Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion."
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James Boswell
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56 Quotes by James Boswell
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A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable…
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I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said…
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If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not,…
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When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.
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A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are…
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What a curious creature is man; with what a variety of powers and faculties is he endued; yet how easily…
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
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Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments,…
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Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on…
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We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to…
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No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must…
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.…
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More Devotion Quotes
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from…
— Aristotle
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I…
— Teresa of Avila
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The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
— Honore de Balzac
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What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community…
— Mitch Albom
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding…
— Adam Clarke
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What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God…
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction,…
— Eric Milner-White
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Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from…
— Wilbur Smith
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If one will fix his heart in such a way and assist the world and its people, he will have…
— Hojo Shigetoki
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