#faculties

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military. ↗

— Smedley Butler

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It should be pursued as in the presence of God, and under the solemn sanctions created by a lively sense of his omniscience, and of our accountability to him for the right use of the faculties which he has bestowed. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

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In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation. ↗

— Stephane Mallarme

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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying? ↗

— Arthur Helps

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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

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It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured. ↗

— Joseph Glanvill

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Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. ↗

— John Haggai

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I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

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