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Example sentences for "human things"

  • The old stands a mournful monument of the fragility of human things: yours as a sanctuary of eternal right.

  • So the powerful cities of the ancient greatness of a giant age; their very memory but a sad monument of the fragility of human things.

  • And the spirit of the immovable Past rose before my eyes, unfolding the misty picture-rolls of vanished greatness, and of the fragility of human things.

  • Because, Socrates, said Parmenides, we have admitted that the ideas are not valid in relation to human things; nor human things in relation to them; the relations of either are limited to their respective spheres.

  • But then, will God, having absolute knowledge, have a knowledge of human things?

  • God is the Supreme Good; whereas we are speaking of the greatest good in human things.

  • The dreariest, fatalest faith; believing which, one would literally despair of human things.

  • The mere notion, the bare idea, that poetry is a deep thing, a teaching thing, the most surely and wisely elevating of human things, is even now to the coarse public mind nearly unknown.

  • Can science bear us To the hid springs Of human things?

  • The dreariest, fatallest faith; believing which, one would literally despair of human things.

  • For thus continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time.

  • To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a little mucus, to-morrow will be a mummy or ashes.

  • But of human things we have not as yet spoken, and we must; for to men we are discoursing and not to Gods.

  • Next, as to the man who believes in the Gods, but refuses to acknowledge that they take care of human things--let him too have a word of admonition.

  • He is only descending to the level of human things, and he often returns to his original idea.

  • So fitful and so perishing the dream Of human things!

  • Let us forget the passing hour, the stir 50 Of this tumultuous scene of human things, And bid imagination lift the veil 52 Spread o'er the rolling globe four thousand years!

  • He has left a little sheaf of random jottings which, without being subtle or recondite, show how he looked on this side of human things.

  • The words which rhetoric uses relate to the best and greatest of human things.

  • Is there no value, then, in human things, but what can write itself down in the cash-ledger?

  • And furthermore, that if really excellent human speech is among the best of human things, then sham-excellent ditto deserves to be ranked with the very worst.

  • But he soon falls, like Icarus, and is content to walk instead of flying; that is, to accommodate himself to the actual state of human things.

  • He is deeply impressed with the importance of classification: in this alone he finds the true measure of human things; and very often in the process of division curious results are obtained.

  • The differences of men and actions, and the endless irregular movements of human things, do not admit of any universal and simple rule.

  • It is not enough to say that there must be a science of human things, because there is a science of all other things.

  • Some such interpretation of human things is as early as the beginning of thought.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each individual; human activity; human agency; human beauty; human blood; human body; human bondage; human brotherhood; human character; human creatures; human development; human energy; human existence; human frailty; human heart; human kindness; human lives; human milk; human need; human race; human reason; human science; human skeleton; human victims; human voice; other planets