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Chiefs Quotes by William Cowper
- Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive,…
- Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee…
- Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
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- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects… — Gaston Bachelard
- The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack… — J. G. Ballard
- The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good… — Joseph Addison
- The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. — Alfred Adler
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when… — Joe Biden
- Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties. — Hugh Blair
- Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses,… — William Blake
- The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. — H. P. Blavatsky
- Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. — Napoleon Bonaparte