Laudable Quotes
38 quotes by 34 authors
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress…
— John Climacus
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How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the game of love. He is…
— H. L. Mencken
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You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state…
— George Washington
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I hated tobacco. I could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...I…
— Thomas Huxley
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Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
— Thomas Hobbes
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One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
— H. L. Mencken
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It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the…
— Jane Austen
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The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land. And although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris…
— George H. W. Bush
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
— John Milton
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Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why make…
— Thomas Ligotti
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If unable to abstain from drinking, a man may get drunk three times a month; if he does it more than three times he is…
— Genghis Khan
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Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely…
— Lawrence Anthony
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those…
— B. C. Forbes
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The desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable, provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses…
— P T Barnum
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To be able to achieve the laudable goals (of preventing and treating HIV/AIDS), especially for us in sub-Saharan Africa, there is the need for us…
— John Dramani Mahama
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I believe in helping our fellow man in need. I believe that reaching into your own pockets to help someone in need is praiseworthy and…
— Walter E. Williams
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There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help…
— Walter E. Williams
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