Argute sayings are far removed from the acute, and indeed, the acute teach, the argute mislead. |
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To interpret such sayings without understanding the Arabic and its eloquence and its context is an erroneous path. |
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His sayings and proverbs, which embodied his philosophy of life, were handed down from generation to generation. |
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Rivers in all their forms have become the raw material for countless metaphors, myths, sayings, and symbols. |
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A set of printing dies stamps the sayings on the sheets in edible red ink, and the hearts are cut. |
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The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails. |
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How come I never noticed before how even innocent little sayings can be so full of meaning? |
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That's one of those hackneyed sayings we grow accustomed to from a young age. |
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In the transfiguration the announcement of divine sonship is flanked by sayings of the necessity of the cross. |
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They say that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat trite sayings. |
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For this promise Muslims must read the Hadith, traditional sayings traced to Muhammad. |
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It shimmers with characters, sayings, spirits, gods and goddesses from a pantheon of faiths. |
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In John, although there are a few parabolic sayings, there are no parables comparable with the synoptic tradition. |
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A child's name, favorite sayings, or footprints and handprints all can make charming wall coverings. |
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Many women wear khangas, printed cloth adorned with Swahili sayings and vitenge, printed cloth with brightly colored and ornate designs. |
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Romani uses many idiomatic expressions, proverbs, and sayings, often with metaphorical qualities. |
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Many of these are inscribed with the sayings of ancient emperors, famous poets and scholars. |
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However, so many handwriting copybooks offer boring, worn-out sayings that do not interest most children today! |
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Famous people tend to get notable sayings retrospectively misattributed to them. |
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Norwegians tend to integrate sayings and proverbs into daily conversations. |
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Some 1,800 of his sayings are collected here, most of them expressive of his wit and erudition. |
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On this week's Lingua Franca he hands on some of the sayings his family handed down to him. |
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Today she is reading the Gospel of Thomas, a document found in Egypt, that purports to contain authentic sayings of Christ. |
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The sayings are in the form of proverbs, parables, aphorisms, and exhortations. |
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Songs, stories, proverbs, and sayings have been passed down over thousands of years. |
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Truly, tant pis is one of those sayings that must have really meant something in old French but that's really hard to translate in modern French. |
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He asked his long-suffering wife, Constance, to collect a selection of his epigrams and sayings. |
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Riddles, proverbs, and sayings that describe proper behavior for both young and old Kenyans are still common. |
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The epic by Waris is interspersed with proverbs, sayings, folktales, history and poetry par excellence. |
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I want to study the possibilities of finding more fragments of the Aramaic logia or the Q source, in other words, the sayings of Jesus. |
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The subject areas in which he was most interested were fishing, folk medicine, proverbs and sayings. |
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She was well known in the estate for her love of life and her quirky sayings. |
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I would rather think that the false which seem true to be the source of argute sayings. |
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He says that wit always has truth for its object, and is the father of acute sayings, whereas feeble fancy is the mother of argute sayings. |
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I don't want cute little sayings stamped into the faux leather. |
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It is a collection of sayings of Jesus, shorn of most narrative setting, and often Gnostic in feel, presenting Jesus as a teacher of esoteric wisdom. |
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In addition to the Qur'an, shariah is based on the Hadith, a complementary collection of sayings, and the Sunnah, which are practices of Islam's founder, the Prophet Muhammad. |
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Any self-respecting philosopher ought to be prepared with some gnomic sayings that can bear several interpretations, at least some of them scandalous. |
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Anyway, proverbs are pithy sayings passed down through the generations which are either observations on life or guides to behaviour. |
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Here, I have replaced the kite with a star, as a reminder of sayings such as follow your star, your lucky star, etc. |
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The most prized possession of my childhood was a notebook of sayings and proverbs that I had compiled over the years. |
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Folk wisdom is often expressed in short, memorable sayings like this: Don't jump over a dollar to save a dime. |
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The legends and sayings about her, locked into memorable shapes like any other conventionalised poetic utterance, did not necessarily adapt to her changing social role. |
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A collection of wise sayings also makes up the remnants of Norse religion. |
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Ndibe infuses his work with traditional African values, sayings and beliefs that brilliantly parallel the baseness of a corrupt modern state on the brink of ruin. |
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Imams recite sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, enjoining men of different religions to pray in each other's houses of worship. |
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This combines many long lost cockney and Irish sayings of the early convicts with words from Aboriginal languages. |
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In this instalment of our FIFA.com monthly series, we review the larger-than-life player's wittiest and most contentious sayings. |
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In one, a teacher read by the hour from the Hadith, a collection of the sayings of the Prophet Mohammed, while hundreds of students sat on the floor, listening respectfully. |
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ClichéSite.com: A list of over 2100 clichés, euphamisms, sayings and figures of speech complete with definitions and explanations. |
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I believe that by and large they're a wonderful force, but to use one of Mr. Schreiber's sayings, the fish stinks from the head. |
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The three sayings of Mr Ando became a philosophy of life:Peace will come when people have food. |
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However, Mr Galeote, from one Spaniard to another, I will define what I think of your attitude by means of two traditional sayings. |
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That Belgium is a country with a definite beer culture is clearly reflected in its language and sayings. |
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Phrase searches are especially useful when searching for famous sayings or proper names. |
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In these texts he interprets his priesthood with particular reference to three sayings of the Lord. |
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Also, we have such commonplace sayings as heart of gold, good as gold, and so on. |
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Although these sayings may seem intimidating, they also mean that some exciting times are ahead. |
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Strange sayings and uncouth banalities are printed upon the screen, pretending to be your utterances in situations that may wall drive a heroine to excruciating cacoepy. |
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Foghorn was a character who became widely known through his odd ways, doings, sayings and his sterling qualities in a tight corner or on a hard trail. |
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Short fables and wise sayings are mingled with recipes, lists, and jokes. |
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This week I also gave a lot of thought to many of the sayings in our lexicon that need updating. |
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Here are some more of these full-bodied writings and sayings that only this vigorous appreciator could bring us for so many years. |
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She grew up in bohemian SoHo, the eldest of three children, and regularly cites her mother's little sayings as yardsticks by which she measures her unusual life. |
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Yet, however timeless many peasant traditions, sayings and beliefs may seem, ethnographic evidence cannot transport us to the world of three centuries ago. |
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Chile's rich store of folklore, sayings, and supernatural beliefs is derived from its European and Indian past, as well as its relation to the mountains and the ocean. |
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Some had their own gospels, with stories and sayings of Jesus. |
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Both women and men went into the desert and the sayings of the Desert Mothers and Fathers were collected, as people visited them to seek their wisdom. |
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Indeed, whether or not it was part of a collection of sayings gathered within this text, it does not explain in itself why it was kept within the synoptic composition. |
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Needless to say, I have my penfriend in stitches with some of our sayings! |
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He finally settled in his native town, Nīshāpūr, in northeastern Iran, where he spent many years collecting the verses and sayings of famous Sufis. |
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Use your favorite personal photos, art and sayings to make customized or personalized products for yourself, as gifts, or to sell to others using our design tools. |
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He had never seen a bird of the kind before, and had been listening for half an hour to its wise sayings with the keenest interest, not unmixed with awe. |
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But alongside the joy which, with your Magnificat, you proclaimed in word and song for all the centuries to hear, you also knew the dark sayings of the prophets about the suffering of the servant of God in this world. |
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Zen sayings can't really help us, nor can well-turned phrases. |
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Thus, the Laozi consists of brief summaries of Laozi's sayings, many of which are in rhyme and others in polished prose to facilitate memorization. |
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Is it not difficult to categorize all the Son of man sayings either as circumlocutions for the first-person singular pronoun, or as another means of referring generically to humanity? |
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These include collections of orature, such as proverbs, sayings, songs and stories, as well as recent autobiographic and fictional literary writing. |
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Likewise, the Analects is composed of collections of the sage's sayings, mostly as answers to questions or as a result of discussions because writing implements and materials were expensive and scarce. |
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As a matter of fact, famous sayings are always being misattributed, borrowed and they live on and on. |
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The following stories and sayings give a taste of the inner life of pious Hassidim. |
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In my view, it's important to bring about lasting change in Africa because, as one of our sayings goes: « Instead of giving a child a fish, teach him to fish»! |
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In these three sayings we see the heart and soul of our Holy Father. |
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Yea, mine owne sayings are every hand-while alleadged against my selfe, when God wot I perceive it not. |
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The Gospel of John is structured differently and includes stories of several miracles of Jesus and sayings not found in the other three. |
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This folklore can include jokes, sayings and expected behavior in multiple variants, always transmitted in an informal manner. |
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Idioms are also not to be confused with proverbs, which are simple sayings that express a truth based on common sense or practical experience. |
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Even when it comes to one's dietary habits, there are numerous prophetic sayings or Hadiths guiding Muslims on this issue. |
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From these hasidim were preserved aggadic sayings, stories, usually however not more than one or two statements per hasid, but not a single halakha. |
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Under Ashi's leadership the Academy, which had been closed since 309, was revived, and the gigantic task of collating scattered notes, sayings, legislative opinions, and homiletic lore was conducted for more than 30 years. |
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You know all the worldly-wise sayings and maxims. |
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Thousands of the creamware mugs decorated with Yorkshire dialect and sayings have been sold across the county to locals and tourists alike. |
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New book Spilling The Beans On The Cat's Pyjamas reveals the origins and meanings of some of the most popular and obscure sayings we use today. |
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The text most often cited in defence of the ban on representation is a hadith, one of the vast lore of sayings about the deeds and words of Muhammad. |
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Another reference to Jerusalem appears in one of the sayings of the Prophet which is recorded in all the six authentic books of Hadith, with minor differences in wording. |
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She is married, and as she wants her daughters to treasure up the sayings of her illustrious friend, they nearly always in her drives occupy the front seat of the brougham. |
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Two sayings from Seneca speak of the laughableness of man's ambitions on an earth scarred by the wars of so many nations. |
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And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. |
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How many of the proverbs or sayings did people already know? |
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A true all-in-one reference work, Le Petit Larousse Illustré is the only dictionary to include both common and proper noun sections, separated by its famous 'pink pages' of quotations, proverbs and historic sayings. |
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It was because he regarded the writings and sayings of Sir William Hamilton as the great fortress of intuitional philosophy in Great Britain that Mill undertook to counter his pretensions. |
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Did their own personal experiences support or refute these sayings? |
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Gilles Verlant has already published a significant number of books on Gainsbourg, biographies just two or three hundred pages long, collections of witty sayings or photographs. |
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People become curious by the aid of the spirit living within and by the capture of one's attention to a situation or by the sayings of another person. |
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If, therefore, His sayings contain statements which appear to be contrary to reason, it is evident either that we do not understand their meaning or that we have interpreted them erroneously. |
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Here is a collection and comportation of Agur's wise sayings. |
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This is the secret of Hegel, and the key to his hieroglyphics, and, if consistently used to interpret the sayings of his logic, it becomes an open book. |
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Jesus' method of teaching involved parables, metaphor, allegory, sayings, proverbs, and a small number of direct sermons such as the Sermon on the Mount. |
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This interest in stories, sayings and songs continued throughout the 19th century and aligned the fledgling discipline of folkloristics with literature and mythology. |
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All three constellate around written and oral accounts, whether genealogies of royalty, idiomatic and culturally specific sayings, or positively drawn maxims. |
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