Never Yet Quotes
130 quotes by 99 authors
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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer…
— Annie Besant
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the…
— Edmund Burke
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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.
— Herman Melville
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The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned…
— Lucretia Mott
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Though I am an old horse, and have seen and heard a great deal, I never yet could make out why men are so fond…
— Anna Sewell
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Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.
— Joseph James Ettor
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Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best…
— Abraham Lincoln
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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
— C.S. Lewis
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Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that…
— Annie Besant
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The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
— Charles de Gaulle
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Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the…
— Robert Collier
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
— Francis Bacon
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There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently
— William Shakespeare
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Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
— George D. Prentice
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Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
— Winston Churchill
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I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.
— John Philpot Curran
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Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
— C.S. Lewis
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If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be…
— James Madison
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