It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave… — John Owen Copy Share Image
All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
OBLIVION, n. The state or condition in which the wicked cease from struggling and the dreary are at rest. Fame's eternal dumping… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. It is fatal for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love.… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law. A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Home is the first and most important school of character. It is there that every human being receives his best moral training,… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Houses turn to corpses overnight when we cease to live and love in them. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Because we worship our way into sin, ultimately we need to worship our way out. When Christians commit sin, they do not… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
