Comparatively Quotes

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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet… — George Matthew Adams
After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. — Buffalo Bill
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier… — Charlotte Bronte
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. — Juvenal
Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look at them comparatively, they are… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.… — Robertson Davies
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager,… — Robert Collier
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a… — John Stuart Mill
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account. — Hannah Whitall Smith
I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that. — Jackie Kennedy
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it. — Mark Twain
The operating management, providing as it does for the care of near thirty thousand miles of railway, is far more important than that for construction… — John B. Jervis
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as… — James Anthony Froude
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without… — Gunnar Myrdal
Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes. — Roger McDonald
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of unestimable difficulties and… — John By
When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our… — George Whitefield

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