Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. — James Madison Copy Share Image
There was never anything so well devised by men which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted — Thomas Cranmer Copy Share Image
Honor, riches, marriage-blessing Long continuance, and increasing, Hourly joys be still upon you! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That was a continuance of what we have seen most of the season - that is, various clubs beating each other. — Ron Noades Copy Share Image
Creation differs from subsistence only as the first leap of a fountain differs from its continuance. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment… Humanity is… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, few kinds of composition from which an author, however learned or ingenious, can hope a long continuance of fame. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme… — Charles Franklin Thwing Copy Share Image
While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Faith in the continuance and enhancement of the intrinsic values--faith in truth, in beauty, in friendship, in love and harmony of life--in… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“Even so, your Heavenly Father says “surely…”—He gives you a certainty that you can count on! It is a promise of continuance.… — Stephen Chappell Copy Share Image
I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My first act as president is a prayer. I ask you to bow your heads: Heavenly Father, we bow our heads and… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I… — Frederick Marryat Copy Share Image
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The end of pleasure is to support the offices of life, to relieve the fatigues of business, to reward a regular action,… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image