"The power of man's virtue should not be……" — Blaise Pascal
"The power of man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doings."
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- The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant… — H. L. Mencken
- His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything… — Nikola Tesla
- Without the suitable conditions life could not exist. But both life and its conditions set forth the operations of inscrutable… — Thomas Aquinas
- Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure… — Albertus Magnus
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as… — H. L. Mencken
- Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use… — Unknown Author
- His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects… — George Wilson
- Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of… — Zhuangzi
- There aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on… — Finley Peter Dunne
- Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may… — Ignatius of Antioch
- To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history and in the… — Bernard Law Montgomery
- The American way is to criticize and debate openly, not to accept unthinkingly the doings of government officials of this… — Michael Parenti