There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane,… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
It is impossible for the mind which is not totally destitute of piety, to behold the sublime, the awful, the amazing works… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
When the Congress first met, Mr. Cushing made a motion that it should be opened with prayer . . . Mr. Samuel… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Without the restraints of religion and social worship, men become savages much sooner than savages become civilized by means of religion and… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.” — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There may be some truth (atheists) do not need to believe in a god to be good, but then if they do… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity.” — Igbinovia Ixrael Lee Copy Share Image
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust. — Abu Nuwas Copy Share Image
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“The source to low self-esteem is the lack of control you feel you have in your life. If you spend your life… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I maintain, against the enemies of the stage, that patterns of piety, decently represented, may second the precepts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with the enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God. — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive leaders. Aggressive because to… — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy. — Paul Krassner Copy Share Image
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