#thus

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#becoming #chance #looked #looks #some

Enthusiasm is not the same as just being excited. One gets excited about going on a roller coaster. One becomes enthusiastic about creating and building a roller coaster. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#becomes #being #building #coaster #creating

If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#attracted #bad #ignorant #learned #person

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. ↗

— Dave Barry

#catch #count #did #increasing #metric

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#freedom #nothing #public #reason #sumptuous

I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#been #boils #burton #cadet #course

Faked enthusiasm is worse than bad acting - it is bad acting with the intent to deceive. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#bad #bad acting #deceive #enthusiasm #faked

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#end #end of the world #enthusiasm #i #lessen

In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#about #attended #been #bunch #couple