Esteemed Quotes
85 quotes by 74 authors
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions…
— John Adams
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed…
— Daniel Boone
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for…
— Thomas More
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That prince is highly esteemed who conveys this impression of himself, and he who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against; for, provided it…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm,…
— Kate Chopin
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The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of…
— Isaac Newton
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The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families…
— Benjamin Franklin
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'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed
— William Shakespeare
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be…
— David Hume
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For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but…
— Lactantius
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort…
— John Selden
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Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether…
— Margaret H. Marshall
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The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the…
— Walter Karp
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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
— Walter Raleigh
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from…
— Richard Sibbes
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That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful…
— Plato
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In ancient times, bodily strength and dexterity, being of greater use and importance in war, was also much more esteemed and valued, than at present.…
— David Hume
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