Before Them Quotes

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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read… — Anna Letitia Barbauld
Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the people, he must… — Laozi
For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They have come here… — Barack Obama
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as… — R. D. Laing
Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who… — Joshua Chamberlain
Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded,… — Salman Rushdie
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole… — Italo Svevo
One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands… — Ernst Gombrich
You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their… — Friedrich Nietzsche
People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become… — Joseph Butler
The man who is worthy of being a leader of men will never complain about the stupidity of his helpers, the ingratitude of mankind nor… — William J. H. Boetcker
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich… — Louis Agassiz
In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the… — Charles Dickens
The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now… — George Washington
You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them. — Jane Roberts
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of… — Horace Walpole
When future generations judge those who came before them on environmental issues, they may conclude "they didn't know": let us not go down in history… — Mikhail Gorbachev
Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our… — Samuel Rutherford

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