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«He had a Puritan conscience and an Episcopalian sense of sin. The first pricked at him persistently, the second was excused through public piety.»
Author: Andrew Sinclair
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Episcopalian, excused, persistently, piety, pricked, puritan, Puritans
«Faith is never identical with piety.»
«Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious con»
«I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
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beseech, beseeching, divided, permit, petition, petitions, piety, reverently, The petition, unite
«Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.»
«But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.»
«Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy i»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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absolute monarchy, atheism, dismount, dismounted, dismounts, erects, guides, monarchies, monarchy, moral philosophy, natural philosophy, outward, piety, superstition, The monarchy, vanished
«It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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depth, elude, eluded, eludes, eluding, intrude, intrudes, intrude into, intrude on, intruding, piety, rash, The Stranger
«Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world»
«A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety.»
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