Long Continued Quotes

15 quotes by 11 authors

• All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them. — William Wordsworth
• As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to… — Samuel Johnson
• I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for his existence. The idea of… — Charles Darwin
• Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable… — Charles Darwin
• [It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth. — James Hutton
• It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace,… — Elihu Root
• The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of… — Isham G. Harris
• Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process. — Phillips Brooks
• There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the… — Guy Davenport
• I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also. — Henry David Thoreau
• Character is simply habit long continued. — Plutarch
• Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle… — Phillips Brooks
• Accurate and minute measurement seems to the non-scientific imagination, a less lofty and dignified work than looking for something new. But nearly all the grandest… — Lord Kelvin
• The belief in God has often been advanced as not only the greatest but the most complete of all the distinctions between man and the… — Charles Darwin

Who Wrote These Long Continued Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 15 Long Continued Quotes as follows:

• 3 Long Continued Quotes by Charles Darwin
• 2 Long Continued Quotes by Phillips Brooks
• 1 Long Continued Quote by Guy Davenport
• 1 Long Continued Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Long Continued Quote by Plutarch
• 1 Long Continued Quote by Lord Kelvin
• 1 Long Continued Quote by William Wordsworth
• 1 Long Continued Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Long Continued Quote by James Hutton
• 1 Long Continued Quote by Elihu Root
• 1 Long Continued Quote by Isham G. Harris