Private End Quotes
- Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd… — Alexander Pope
- Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point… — Ralph Waldo Emerson