Great Object Quotes
25 quotes by 22 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
— Sun Tzu
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
— John Keats
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The ten days we passed there [at Ta Chêng Tzu], we were the song of the drunkard and the jest of the abjects; but the…
— James Gilmour
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The great object is that every man be armed.
— Patrick Henry
Who Wrote These Great Object Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 25 Great Object Quotes as follows: