Creatures Quotes

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I see shining fish struggling within tight nets, while I hear orioles singing carefree tunes. Even trivial creatures know the difference between freedom and bondage.… — Du Fu
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too… — Joseph Wood Krutch
A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do. — Walter Scott
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels… — Pearl S. Buck
The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own… — Ruth Bernhard
And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man… — John Milton
We declare, say , define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman… — Pope Boniface VIII
If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you pitch your expectations… — Bruce Barton
This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases of repeated attempts… — Faxian
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she is a relative;… — William Makepeace Thackeray
It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it is beyond a doubt bodies… — Origen
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run… — Robert A. Heinlein
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation. — Mercy Otis Warren
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
First reason is, it's not authorized in the Constitution, it's an illegal institution. The second reason, it's an immoral institution, because we have delivered to… — Ron Paul
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To call ourselves a Microcosme, or little world, I thought it onely a pleasant trope of Rhetorick, till my neare judgement and second thoughts told… — Thomas Browne
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison
Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace. — Arthur W. Pink

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