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at length

«The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous»
«The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.»
Author: Jean Rostand (Biologist, Historian) | About: Admiration | Keywords: admires, at length
«Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come»
«The bourgeois produces the bolshevist, inevitably as every half-truth at length produces the contradiction of itself in the opposite half-truth.»
«Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.»
«There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.»
«Long-expected one and twenty, / Lingering year at length is flown.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: at length, flown
«The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape a»
«The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged and numerous senses could perceive. And particularly they studied the genius of each city and county, placing it under its mental deity. Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of and enslaved the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects; thus began Priesthood. Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales. And at length they pronounced that the Gods had ordered such things. Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.»
«Oh! let me then at length be taughtWhat I am still so slow to learn;That God is love, and changes not,Nor knows the shadow of a turn.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: at length

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