Esteemed Quotes

85 Esteemed quotes by 73 unique authors

Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it was because God… — Frederic Farrar
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for… — Samuel Johnson
Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum… — Thomas Carlyle
True patriots believe that we should measure a citizen's worth by contribution to country and community, not by wealth or power-that those whom America has… — Eric Liu
Talkative represents the man or woman who delights in talking about divine things but has only theoretical knowledge of such things. No actual personal heart… — John Bunyan
Now it is not everybody, even amongst our respected friends and esteemed acquaintance, whom we like to have near us, whom we like to watch… — Charlotte Bronte
In a 91-part series of sob stories from the laid off and the disgruntled, The NY Times is in the midst of bemoaning 'the downsizing… — Rush Limbaugh
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is… — George Bernard Shaw
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. — Carl Jung
The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles… — Benjamin Franklin
The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices… — Herman Melville
There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. — William Hazlitt
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on… — Thucydides
In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are… — Bill Gross
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be… — Henry David Thoreau
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony… — H. L. Mencken
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are. — Nicolas Malebranche
This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom. — Thomas Traherne
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status… — Laozi
My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it. — Astley Cooper
Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and… — David Brainerd
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of… — Francis Bacon
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything… — Gerald of Wales
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed… — H. L. Mencken

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