Peculiarly Quotes
71 quotes by 59 authors
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
— Isaac Barrow
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Modern economic thinking...is peculiarly unable to consider the long term and to appreciate man's dependence on the natural world.
— E F Schumacher
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Expecting a novel to bear the weight of our whole disturbed society—to help solve our contemporary problems—seems to me a peculiarly American delusion. To write…
— Jonathan Franzen
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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
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.
— Yehudi Menuhin
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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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
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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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