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- Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume
- We ask advice but we mean approbation. — Charles Caleb Colton
- Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world.… — Joseph Addison
- There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her… — Arthur Helps
- It appears evident, therefore, that those actions only can truly be called virtuous, and deserving of moral approbation, which the agent believed… — Thomas Reid
- Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled… — Charles Darwin
- Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the… — Mahatma Gandhi
- The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter… — Herbert Spencer
- Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions… — Thomas Jefferson
- Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but… — William Golding
- The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God… — Pope Benedict XVI