Chiefly Quotes

232 quotes by 182 authors

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial… — George Gilder
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying… — Saint Francis de Sales
The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and… — Henry David Thoreau
Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of… — William James
Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common… — Saint Ambrose
In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some… — Alice Morse Earle
The United States has means to wound Latin American countries deeply, chiefly by altering trade policies to cut imports in ways that would throw thousands… — Stephen Kinzer
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. — Socrates
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control… — John Moody
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical,… — John Strachan
They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off. — Cole Younger
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry… — Patrick White
We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about… — John Woolman
First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight;… — William Bartram
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. — Georg Brandes
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that. — Francis Lockier
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved… — Bible
INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The… — Ambrose Bierce
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds... In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most… — William Ellery Channing

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