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Besetting Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of…
- For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of…
More Besetting Quotes
- Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. — Samuel Butler
- ... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for… — John Stuart Mill
- Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively… — Fredrik Bajer
- But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
- I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or if that's… — Karen Joy Fowler
- Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master… — Unknown Author
- Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. — John Owen
- Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins. — J C Ryle
- Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary… — Azar Nafisi
- Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by… — Charles Dickens