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«By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it»
Author: Joseph Collins
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Emotion
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«There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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«Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.»
Author: John Updike
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«The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray»
«I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; / A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; / Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; / Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.»
Author: Bible
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«Laughter brings you to the earth, brings you down from your stupid ideas of being holier-than-thou.»
Author: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
(Spiritual leader)
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brings, Down to Earth, holier-than-thou, holier, the Earth, thou
«ARCHBISHOP, n. An ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.If I were a jolly archbishop, On Fridays I'd eat all the fish up -- Salmon and flounders and smelts; On other days everything else. --Jodo Rem»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«I draw circles and sacred boundaries about me; fewer and fewer climb with me up higher and higher mountains.?I am building a mountain chain out of ever-holier mountains.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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About me, boundaries, chain, circles, fewer, Higher And Higher, holier, mountain chain, The Holy Mountain
«No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still»
«Ideas of superiority and inferiority arise only in a heart corrupted by egoism. If someone argues that he is higher or his religion is holier, it proves that he has missed the significance of his faith.»
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