Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things. — Nilus of Sinai Copy Share Image
The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it… — Livy Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest… — Carol Zaleski Copy Share Image
Man to the last is but a froward child; So eager for the future, come what may, And to the present so… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies. — Samuel Prout Copy Share Image
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
