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God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude. Robert Creeley
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Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy. Richard Baxter
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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them. William Wordsworth
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What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love. Richard Gere
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I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for. Rebecca Wells
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We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. Roald Amundsen
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Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude. Richard Rohr
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The movement toward gratitude, authenticity, and union is the natural and organic inner work of the second half of our lives.
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The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours. Robert Walpole
ignorance reason-why consciousness
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance Richard Hooker
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Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy.
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Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too. Robyn Carr
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Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured. Robert Silverberg
ignorance knowledge quality
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour. Samuel Johnson
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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. Robert Staughton Lynd
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Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants? Robert Solow
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To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
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The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures Walt Whitman
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To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill. Roger Ascham
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Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have. Sarah Wayne Callies
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There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will. William Congreve
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. Henry Rollins
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I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.
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Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess. John C. Maxwell
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Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence. James Hunter
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At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow. James R. Thompson
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Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. Ellen Key