white angel
Ranaa
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Translation (OLC) doesn't appreciate the smart students
Unfortunately this is true. I hope that they appreciate those students in the near future. We can't do any thing, we can just hope!!!!!
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Your quotations are connected with each other, and both are just one wisdom, to prevent the desire of your heart, this means that you give the leadership to your brain, which will control your desire…this is painful, it is not easy to be controlled by your brain.
Your heart may lead you to commit sins, because it serves your desires, and your desires are temporary, and as we know that most desires serve the current moment….and most desires don't take into account the Future and it's results.
EXACTLY
The point is that if we give the leadership to either mind or heart we will suffer a lot. When we give the control to the mind we are in fact but previnting ourselves from "the joys" of the world; we will become something like 'machines'. On the other hand, when 'heart' alone becomes the controller of our personalities we will suffer the consequences of our deeds. Then what we need is just achieving balance between the heart and mind. And I think that this is really a difficult task. Only few people can do this.
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Oh dear!!! It's the same …you will be repentant in the two cases
It seems a funny answer, but it is true
Ranaa
سيرين
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While I was reading your words about tears and contradictory things , I remembered the clouds because we get so happy when we see the tears of clouds , and become so sad when we see the smile of clouds.
You are thinking like a poet
But do you really think that rain is nothing but tears?
حلواني
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O beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
Thank you Fadi for joyning us again here. You seem that you loke Othello very much. Is it your favourite?
As for your quote, yes I agree that jealousy is a monster. We all should give great attention in order not to be affected by 'him'.
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do you think jealosy has a good advantages or not?
It depends on the kind of jealousy. Jealousy becomes a lovely thing when it is a 'slight' one. But when it is so strong it becomes really like a monster who doesd his best to destroy the relationship between people.
الملاك
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some words when utterd; take its way to the head, and some, to the heart. silence and tears heads to the heart.
Nice to use the word "head" this way. Now you are a philosopher
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worming the feelings with cold, ice, snow, and frost
OXYMORON
Nice comments
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its FRANKLIN's opinion
And MINE as well
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" the father of Tragedy"
He is
I couldn't get your point. Do agree or not? If you mean to ask like "is he?" then you disagree that Mr. Shake is the father of tragedy.
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but I have some more tragedyes by Jane Austen
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
I don't agree
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Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
GREAT
I COMPLETELY AGREE with this
الملاك
Now my quotation for today is from Leviathan, by Thomas Hobbes
CHAPTER II
OF IMAGINATION
That when a thing lies still, unlesse somewhat els stirre it, it will lye still for ever, is a truth that no man doubts of. But that when a thing is in motion, it will eternally be in motion, unless somewhat els stay it, though the reason be the same, (namely, that nothing can change it selfe,) is not so easily assented to. For men measure, not onely other men, but all other things, by themselves: and because they find themselves subject after motion to pain, and lassitude, think every thing els growes weary of motion, and seeks repose of its own accord; little considering, whether it be not some other motion, wherein that desire of rest they find in themselves, consisteth. From hence it is, that the Schooles say, Heavy bodies fall downwards, out of an appetite to rest, and to conserve their nature in that place which is most proper for them; ascribing appetite, and Knowledge of what is good for their conservation, (which is more than man has) to things inanimate absurdly.
When a Body is once in motion, it moveth (unless something els hinder it) eternally; and whatsoever hindreth it, cannot in an instant, but in time, and by degrees quite extinguish it: And as wee see in the water, though the wind cease, the waves give not over rowling for a long time after; so also it happeneth in that motion, which is made in the internall parts of a man, then, when he Sees, Dreams, &c. For after the object is removed, or the eye shut, wee still retain an image of the thing seen, though more obscure than when we see it. And this is it, that Latines call Imagination, from the image made in seeing; and apply the same, though improperly, to all the other senses. But the Greeks call it Fancy; which signifies Apparence, and is as proper to one sense, as to another. Imagination therefore is nothing but Decaying Sense; and is found in men, and many other living Creatures, as well sleeping, as waking.
Memory The decay of Sense in men waking, is not the decay of the motion made in sense; but an obscuring of it, in such manner, as the light of the Sun obscureth the light of the Starres; which starrs do no less exercise their vertue by which they are visible, in the day, than in the night. But because amongst many stroaks, which our eyes, eares, and other organs receive from externall bodies, the predominant onely is sensible; therefore the light of the Sun being predominant, we are not affected with the action of the starrs. And any object being removed from our eyes, though the impression it made in us remain; yet other objects more present succeeding, and working on us, the Imagination of the past is obscured, and made weak; as the voyce of a man is in the noyse of the day. From whence it followeth, that the longer the time is, after the sight, or Sense of any object, the weaker is the Imagination. For the continuall change of mans body, destroyes in time the parts which in sense were moved: So that the distance of time, and of place, hath one and the same effect in us. For as at a distance of place, that which wee look at, appears dimme, and without distinction of the smaller parts; and as Voyces grow weak, and inarticulate: so also after great distance of time, our imagination of the Past is weak; and wee lose( for example) of Cities wee have seen, many particular Streets; and of Actions, many particular Circumstances. This Decaying Sense, when wee would express the thing it self, (I mean Fancy it selfe,) wee call Imagination, as I said before; But when we would express the Decay, and signifie that the Sense is fading, old, and past, it is called Memory. So that Imagination and Memory, are but one thing, which for divers considerations hath divers names.
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