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5. Dez. 2014 · Both “better angel” and “better angels” have long pedigrees in English literature, though there is some disagreement as to whether an individual person has only one better angel or many, and conversely whether many people collectively have multiple better angels or just one.
- There was a huge political crisis in the works, and portions of the country were preparing for war with each other - one that would take 600,000 li...
- The comparative better implies there must also be worse angels, and these would be those that (per Christian mythology ) fell with Satan or Lu...
- He said that in a time before the American Civil War. He was attempting to keep the Union a Union. The South was threatening to secede. As a ver...
- SONNET 144 by William Shakespeare Two loves I have of comfort and despair, Which like two spirits do suggest me still; The better angel is...
- Lincoln, I think, is saying the Nation is conflicted, impassioned and, perhaps mislead by strong emotional tides. He is hoping that the American P...
a spiritual being serving as a divine messenger and intermediary and often as a special protector of an individual or nation; especially : one in… See the full definition
When someone appeals to our better angels, they are asking us to tap into those higher values within ourselves – to act with kindness instead of cruelty; to show understanding instead of judgment; and to prioritize the greater good over personal gain.
better angels. The noble, moral, and similarly positive traits or impulses that humans possess. Tim's a good kid, who listens to his better angels. I'm not surprised to hear that he returned the wallet he found. Son, you can't tune out your better angels if your friends are trying to get you to do something stupid.
“The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” by Abraham Lincoln. March 4, 1861 [Excerpts]
Vor 6 Tagen · better angels pl (plural only) ( idiomatic ) Morally upright or otherwise positive attributes of human character . 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens , “ Barnaby Rudge ”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock , volume III, London: Chapman & Hall , [ … ] , →OCLC , chapter 29:
14. März 2017 · Even though the same brute may be doing his work on the minds of our friends and family, we can resist the social pressure and consider the better angels of our nature. Doing what comes...
