Great Object Quotes

25 quotes by 22 authors

The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in… — J. G. Holland
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar… — Samuel Johnson
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. — Thomas Jefferson
In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. — Sun Tzu
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step… — Thomas Jefferson
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently… — Florence Nightingale
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. — John Keats
The ten days we passed there [at Ta ChÃªng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the… — James Gilmour
If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture… — Joseph Addison
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of… — Joseph Story
This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of… — Adam Weishaupt
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the… — Charles Spurgeon
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present… — Cecil Rhodes
I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted… — Andrew Jackson
The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all… — Joshua Reynolds
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The great object is that every man be armed. — Patrick Henry

Who Wrote These Great Object Quotes

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