Insensible Quotes

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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of… — Charles Babbage
No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and… — Alexander Hamilton
What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble… — Martin Luther
Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. — Walter Scott
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a… — Edmund Burke
It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. — Emile Durkheim
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,… — Thomas Jefferson
There are few mortals so insensible that their affections cannot he gained by mildness, their confidence by sincerity, their hatred by scorn or neglect — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But… — Samuel Johnson
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability… — Carol Zaleski
The minds of men are mirrors to one another, not only because they reflect each other's emotions, but also because those rays of passions, sentiments… — David Hume
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are… — Emile Durkheim
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. — Neil Postman
No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do withâ€”they… — John Clare
That his prayer was nothing else but a sense of the presence of GOD, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine… — Brother Lawrence
In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be… — Octavius Winslow
The freedom of the press is a valuable privilege; but the abuse of it, in this country, is a frightful evil. The licentiousness of the… — Noah Webster

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