Best Greater Part Quotes
100 Greater Part quotes by 72 unique authors
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Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and…
— George Berkeley
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I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that…
— Martha Washington
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When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Oblivion is not to be hired: The greater part must be content to be as though they had not been, to be found in the…
— Thomas Browne
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest…
— Francis Quarles
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Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory…
— Cyril Connolly
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The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that…
— Giacomo Leopardi
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Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who…
— Hilaire Belloc
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It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit, or analogy supply;…
— Samuel Johnson
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... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided…
— Aldous Huxley
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I esteem his understanding and subtlety highly, but I consider that they have been put to ill use in the greater part of his work,…
— Christiaan Huygens
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Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored…
— Gerry Spence
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian…
— Edmund Burke
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Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.
— Socrates
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True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I believe we were all glad to leave New Zealand. It is not a pleasant place. Amongst the natives there is absent that charming simplicity…
— Charles Darwin
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The greater part performed achieves the less.
— John Dryden
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The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.
— Gustave Le Bon
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The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas…
— John Maynard Keynes
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