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«Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.»
«Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them»
Author: Marcel Proust (Author, Novelist) | About: Time | Keywords: alter, retained, The Image
«And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat and drink, and lodged there.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: abode, damsel, lodged, retained
«So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.»
«I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds: / Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me: / Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels: / Whom I would have retained with me, that in thy stead he might have ministered unto me in the bonds of the gospel: / But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.»
«Hatred ever kills, love never dies such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What is obtained by hatred proves a burden in reality for it increases hatred.»
Author: Mohandas Gandhi | Keywords: retained
«The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.»
«Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.»