Saints cannot arise where ...

Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths.

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

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America is a young country with an old mentality.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.