Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
quote by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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On His Deafness
'Speak up - no need to shout -I'm not THAT deaf! '
- do I have real reason to complain,
if years of partial listening have brought
now partial hearing in their fateful train?
O Milton - isn't it curious: the blind
evoke our instant feelings of compassion -
while deafness calls some idiot state to mind,
evoking, far from pity - irritation?
Those saintly mystics would just praise their God
that He, to speed their simple saintliness,
brings outer deafness so that inner Word
in cloistered silence, bring a greater bliss...
So may I bear affliction in good part
and hope to hear the louder in the heart.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Sonnet: On His Deafness
‘Speak up! No need to shout – I’m not t h a t deaf..! ’
-do I have any real right to complain
if years of partial listening have brought
now partial hearing in their fateful train?
O Milton – isn’t it curious: the blind
evoke our instant feelings of compassion;
while deafness calls some idiot state to mind –
evoking, far from pity – irritation!
Those saintly mystics would just praise their God
that He, to speed their simple saintliness,
brings outer deafness, so that inner Word
in cloistered silence brings a greater bliss..
So may I bear affliction in good part:
and hear a greater, louder word in heart.
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Understood To Exclude Them From Truths
When one gets too accustomed,
To embellishing what they've done...
Partial truths are told.
To bestow as shown to everyone.
Quick to betray,
If their insecurities are threatened.
But yet to display,
Are their excuses made with few exceptions.
Associations with people like this,
Over time decreases in respect.
Explanations of their neglect...
Eventually from them some should expect.
When one gets too accustomed,
To embellishing what they've done...
Partial truths are told.
To bestow as shown to everyone.
Maturity is dismissed,
In the minds of people with this addiction.
And it is unfortunate they allow themselves...
To be chased away by delusions.
With a praying done their delusions will stay,
To be understood to exclude them...
From truths they painfully detest.
And hate to face from day to day.
As a life lived in reality eventually fades.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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I' been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.
quote by Clarence Thomas
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Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man?
quote by Thomas Campbell
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Thundershowers and great men's favour are always partial.
To the partial eyes of a lover, pockmarks seem like dimples.
Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.
quote by Bela Lugosi
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Penumbral Grace
partial shadow
between regions of full shadow
(the umbra)
umba! umba! umba!
umba! umba! umba!
and full illumination,
cast by Earth,
the Moon,
during an eclipse.
caramba! caramba! caramba!
caramba! caramba! caramba!
partial lunar eclipse,
a portion of the Moon's disk
remaining within the
penumbra of Earth's shadow
the rest is darkened
by the umbra
grayish outer part
a sunspot.
Compare
umbra! umbra! umbra!
umbra! umbra! umbra!
umbra! umbra! umbra!
umbra! umbra! umbra!
shower me the grace
of your Umbra Oh Lord!
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.
quote by Jerry Weller
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I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
quote by Clarence Thomas
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To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
quote by Alexander Pope
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And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.
quote by Mark Rothko
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There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.
quote by Michael J. Tucker
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It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.
quote by Avrum Stroll
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So Don't
Always do what you want
There's energy hard to define
Of thinking wishful intentions best
But a wish partial denies the rest
poem by Miroslava Odalovic
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Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor.
quote by John Woolman
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
quote by Neil Diamond
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