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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and…
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It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many…
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As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended…
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Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we…
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Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food
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The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that…
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by…
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Happiness does not consist in self-love.
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The satisfaction that accompanies good acts is itself not the motivation of the act; satisfaction is not the motive, but only the…
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Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and…
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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour,…
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Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by…
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[The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the…
— John C. Calhoun
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One merit of mathematics few will deny: it says more in fewer words than any other science. The formula, e^iπ = -1…
— David Eugene Smith
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The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.
— John Rosemond
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Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
— Sophocles
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Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too…
— Joseph Butler
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I think you often say more by saying less. And interestingly enough, I mean, Jesus really set the standard. I mean, he…
— Mark Batterson
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I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn't write? But that fortunately hasn't proved to be the case and I…
— Christopher Hitchens
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One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
— Voltaire
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The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I…
— J. Michael Straczynski
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There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas.…
— Erin Morgenstern
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A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
— Peter De Vries
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