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Contraries

«The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.»
«Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.»
«Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.»
«Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.»
«Contraries are cured by contraries.»
«Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.»
«By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual»
«All concord's born of contraries»
Author: Ben Jonson (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: Concord, Contraries
«No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests»
«Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.»

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