"Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man."

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Source : Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.175

Jean Ingelow

#Men Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.”
“There are 2 types of captains in World Cricket. One is MS Dhoni and the other are the all others.”
“But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.”
“What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thing that answers, but hath not a thought As lasting but as senseless as a stone.”

Source : Frederick Tennyson, Sappho, Alcaeus (1890). “The Isles of Greece: Sappho and Alcæus”, London Macmillan 1890.
“The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.”
“It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.”
“In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.”
“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.49, Penn State Press

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