Exact Proportion Quotes
20 quotes by 16 authors
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The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a…
— James Prescott Joule
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
— James Russell Lowell
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
— Edmund Burke
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The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
— George Muller
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A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.
— Cyrus the Great
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If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitous man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of…
— Charles Dickens
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Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.
— Earl Nightingale
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True science and true religion are twin sisters, and the separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. Science…
— Thomas Huxley
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
— John Ruskin
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Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for…
— Cennino Cennini
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
— Ernest Hemingway
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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
— Earl Nightingale
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Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them…
— Simone Weil
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more…
— Edmund Burke
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The riches they receive will be in exact proportion to the definiteness of their vision, the fixity of their purpose, the steadiness of their faith,…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of…
— Edmund Burke
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"What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their…
— Edmund Burke
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