Nor Quotes
6149 Nor quotes by 3085 unique authors
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The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our…
— Albert Schweitzer
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[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is…
— Joseph Story
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The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;…
— James Madison
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The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of…
— James Madison
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But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand:…
— George Washington
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Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare…
— Thomas Paine
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For this, deep waters whelm the fruitful lea, Wars ravage, famine wastes, plague withers, nor Shall cease till men have chosen the better part.
— George MacDonald
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There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.
— William Shakespeare
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all…
— Lord Acton
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You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.
— Jane Roberts
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Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
— William Wordsworth
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It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
— Dorothee Solle
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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties.…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy…
— George Santayana
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The older woman's love is not love of herself, nor of herself mirrored in a lover's eyes, nor is it corrupted by need. It is…
— Germaine Greer
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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
— Thomas a Kempis
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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive.…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total…
— Aberjhani
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We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick and the dying…
— Thomas Szasz
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My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about…
— John Keats
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