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• Mr. Rihani is a man of ardent poetic temperament, a clever poet, and a man of unworldly ideals.

  Edwin Markham

  Clever, Men, Poetic

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• As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Men, Self

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.598, e-artnow

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• The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's  presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Voice, People

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• Women are "hypergamous." This means they seek men of higher status than themselves. Even the most ardent heterosexual feminist only can love someone more powerful than she. Needless to say the higher she rises, the slimmer the pickings.

  Henry Makow

  Powerful, Mean, Men

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• Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Confused, Passion, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Confessions”, p.176, Everyman's Library

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• I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Wine, America

  Benjamin Franklin (1815). “The works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his Life, written by himself. Together with humorous, moral and literary essays, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator. Among which are several not in any American edition”, p.199

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• Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Passion, Two, Liberty

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.159

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• Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!

  May Sarton

  Share, Nature Love, Bases

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.114, Open Road Media

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• I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Mistake, People, Rehabilitation

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• When you turn the discussion onto talk of religion, you will soon start to reveal a whole range of views ranging from the ardent supporter to the ardent atheist.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Atheist, Views, Religion

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• We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Names, Giving, Want

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.

  Robert Toombs

  Country, War, Fighting

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• The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear- Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Distance, Years

  Complete Poems, no.1742 (first published 1896).

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• There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Strong, Commitment

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

  Dean Koontz

  Emotional, Perfection, Forever

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.194, Bantam

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• Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.

  Maxim Gorky

  Class, Intellectual, Growth

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• No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Blue, Paris

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 29, 1991.

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• Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the religious imagination. To try to make a fresh way of talking at the most serious, ardent, and enthusiastic level, heading off the religious encapsulation, is one of the primary intellectual tasks of future thought.

  Susan Sontag

  Religious, Talking, Imagination

  "Styles of Radical Will" by Susan Sontag, (p. 69), 1966.

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• Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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• If ardent passions push not men on to lofty enterprise, calm wisdom never will accomplish it.

  Vittorio Alfieri

  Passion, Men, Calm

  Vittorio Alfieri (1876). “The Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri: Philip. Polynices. Antigone. Virginia. Agamemnon. Orestes. Rosmunda. Octavia. Timoleon. Merope. Mary Stuart”

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• Not as closely as some of the most ardent fans, but I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners.

  Mitt Romney

  Team, Fans, Great Friend

  "Mitt Romney: ‘I Have Some Friends Who Are NASCAR Team Owners’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again. Unless ... Summer's ardent rustling is like a festival outside my window.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Summer, Memories, Soul

  Anna Akhmatova, “The Sentence”

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• We are seekers of the truth, but we do not embody the truth. And in humility, we should recognize that the same can be said about our most ardent foes.

  John C. Danforth

  Humility, Should, Said

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 17, September 19, 2006.

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• It is instructive, although somewhat disheartening, for the ardent advocate of a purely scientific psychology to contrast the practice and theories of his colleagues with those of the students of the principal physical sciences.

  George Trumbull Ladd

  Practice, Psychology, Students

  George Trumbull Ladd (1895). “Philosophy of Mind”, Ams PressInc

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• I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions... Nor has the Church's ardent "desire to depart, and be with Christ," ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.

  John Ruskin

  Christian, Father, House

  John Ruskin (1900). “The crown of wild olive: Munera pulveris. Pre-Raphaelitism. Aratra Pentelici, etc”

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