Peculiarly Quotes

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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment. — Isaac Barrow
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience… — William Ellery Channing
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's… — J. William Fulbright
To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world. — E F Schumacher
Of all the cares or concerns of government, the direction of war most peculiarly demands those qualities which distinguish the exercise of power by a… — Alexander Hamilton
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of either be too… — Alexander Hamilton
Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the… — Ulysses S. Grant
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain… — Alexander Hamilton
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with… — Joan Didion
All of you knowing now, Tthat the Buddhas, the Teachers of the Ages, In accord with what is peculiarly appropriate, have recourse to expedient devices,… — Gautama Buddha
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than… — Henry Ward Beecher
Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed societyâ€”to help solve our contemporary problemsâ€”seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write… — Jonathan Franzen
The Americans who went to Europe to die are a unique breed.... (They) crossed the seas to a foreign land to fight for a cause… — Woodrow Wilson
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin
What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron? — Alfred Russel Wallace
When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of… — Roger Williams
The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings. — George Washington

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