#latter

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#faith #former #gift #god #human

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#alive #author #before #characters #does

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#christian #college #difference #honest #latter

Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day. ↗

— Glenn Quinn

#believe #day #during #egomaniac #enough

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#difference #education #equal #even #former

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#apostle #back #before #bible #birth

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#flatters #fool #himself #man #wise

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. ↗

— Richard Steele

#below #cannot #character #envies #except

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#government #hesitate #i #latter #left