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«The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales»
«Self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales»
«The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.»
«These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.»
«Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.»
«Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? / Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? / With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? / Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.»
«REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.»
«There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything; it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years and the dropping of a woman's glove, and almost always the glove weighs more than the empire.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
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dropping, fourteen, glove, magnifies, scales, The Empire, weighs
«Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
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appreciating, crucible, crucibles, diamonds, gold coin, lab, scales, The Crucible, The Lab, touchstone, touchstones, trader, weights
«Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.»
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