Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes,… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end,… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Our Lord might be described as the great Physician, Healer, Engineer, Chief Scout, Foreman, Builder, or the like - all showing his… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man… — Edward S. Curtis Copy Share Image
There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
That eminence of learning is not to be gained without labour, at least equal to that which any other kind of greatness… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of… — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
