Great Measure Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character. — Brian Tracy
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. — R. D. Laing
The uniform necessities of human nature produce in a great measure uniformity of life, and for part of the day make one place like another;… — Samuel Johnson
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld otherwise than by… — Algernon Sidney
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the… — Galileo Galilei
The valuable properties of this cement depend in a great measure on the mode of preparing it for use. The mixing should therefore be conducted… — Canvass White
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect… — James Madison
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individual in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed. — Horace
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense… — Thucydides
It seems then, say I, that you leave politics entirely out of the question, and never suppose, that a wise magistrate can justly be jealous… — David Hume
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
Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and… — Samuel Chase
In Radical Optimism, Beatrice Bruteau sets forth a deep and shining vision of spirituality, one that guides the reader into the contemplative life and the… — Sue Monk Kidd
A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight. — Kate Jacobs
Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society. — David Hume
Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power… — Robert Fortune
Upon the shoulders of you mothers rests; in a great measure, the responsibility of correctly developing the mental and moral powers of the rising generation...I… — Wilford Woodruff
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will,… — Joseph Hume
The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them. — Michel de Montaigne

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