Expedients Quotes
23 quotes by 17 authors
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to…
— Ben Jonson
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I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful; for not only…
— Samuel Johnson
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To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much…
— Alexander Hamilton
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There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to…
— Phillips Brooks
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To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things,…
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at…
— Margaret Thatcher
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It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies,…
— Albert J. Nock
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The blacks of this region are a cheerful, careless, dirty, race, not hard worked, and in many respects indulgently treated. It is of course the…
— William C. Bryant
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In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced.
— Andrew Coyle Bradley
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Strategy is a system of expedients
— Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
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He who sees different ways to the same end, will, unless he watches carefully over his own conduct, lay out too much of his attention…
— Samuel Johnson
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By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the…
— Joshua Reynolds
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The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern…
— Winston Churchill
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The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a…
— Winston Churchill
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