Justly Quotes
169 Justly quotes by 131 unique authors
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I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of…
— John Scott
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To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.
— Socrates
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We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through no fault of…
— John Cassian
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For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except…
— Aristotle
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Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these…
— William Gilmore Simms
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It is our duty to endeavor always to promote the general good; to do to all as we would be willing to be done by…
— Samuel West
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We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some…
— Winston Churchill
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A just wage for the worker is the ultimate test of whether any economic system is functioning justly.
— Pope John Paul II
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It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The…
— Samuel Johnson
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...reasonable natures have free will, and can turn to the good or the bad voluntarily by themselves. They either attach themselves to God's will, which…
— Gregory Palamas
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Let no one out of laziness or continuous worldly occupations miss these holy Sunday gatherings, which God Himself handed down to us, lest he be…
— Gregory Palamas
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Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while…
— E.C. Riegel
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There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.
— Samuel
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Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most…
— Algernon Sidney
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For all that we cherish and justly desire - for ourselves or for our children - the securing of peace is the first requisite.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I look upon every good man, as a good book, lent by its owner for another to read, and transcribe the excellent notions and golden…
— John Flavel
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Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.
— Marcus Aurelius
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In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways…
— Saint Augustine
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A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an…
— George Edward Woodberry
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Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
— Max Beerbohm
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Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
— Eamon de Valera
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Who can justly measure the righteous influence of a mother's love? What enduring fruits result from the seeds of truth that a mother carefully plants…
— Richard G. Scott
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Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any…
— Abraham Lincoln
Who Wrote These Justly Quotes
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