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Word with: "facility"
"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."
Author: Mark Twain
About: Change
"So well she acted all and every part
By turns–with that vivacious versatility,
Which many people take for want of heart.
They err–'tis merely what is call'd mobility,
A thing of temperament and not of art,
Though seeming so, from its supposed facility;
And false–though true; for surely they're sincerest
Who are strongly acted on by what is nearest."
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
About: Character
"Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942 There is a great difference between a lofty spirit and a right spirit. A lofty spirit excites admiration by its profoundness; but only a right spirit achieves salvation and happiness by its stability and integrity. Do not conform your ideas to those of the world. Scorn the "intellectual" as much as the world esteems it. What men consider intellectual is a certain facility to produce brilliant thoughts. Nothing is more vain. We make an idol of our intellect as a woman who believes herself beautiful worships her face. We take pride in our own thoughts. We must reject not only human cleverness, but also human prudence, which seems so important and so profitable. Then we may enter – like little children, with candor and innocence of worldly ways – into the simplicity of faith; and with humility and a horror of sin we may enter into the holy passion of the cross."
Author: François Fénelon
About: Christianity
"Commemoration of Ini Kopuria, Founder of the Melanesian Brotherhood, 1945 The very strength and facility of the pessimists' case at once poses us a problem. If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must have always been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held."
Author: C. S. Lewis
About: Christianity
"That which is acquired without difficulty is dispersed with equal facility."
Author: Unknown
About: Cliches and OneLiners
"The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse."
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
About: Poetry
"Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind."
Author: Eric Hoffer
About: Psychological Subjects
"The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together."
Author: Eric Hoffer
About: Psychological Subjects
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
Author: Lord Peter Wimsey
About: Quotes
"The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the success of a movement to its faith, doctrine, propaganda, leadership, ruthlessness and so on, we are but referring to instruments of unification and to means used to inculcate a readiness for self-sacrifice. It is perhaps impossible to understand the nature of a mass movement unless it is recognized that their chief preoccupation is to foster, perfect and perpetuate a facility for united action and self-sacrifice."
Author: Eric Hoffer
About: Society
Pages: 1
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