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Nay Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
- Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound…
- Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :…
- To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on,…
- The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity;…
- Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
- For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad
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- Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed. — Abu Bakr
- Man is ever searching for the source whence he has come, searching for the life which is upwelling within him, immortal, nay,… — Annie Besant
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- Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our… — Maya Angelou
- It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most… — J. G. Holland
- May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger… — Winston Churchill
- The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its… — Pliny the Elder
- We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we… — Abraham Lincoln
- In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own… — Saint Augustine