Professes Quotes
34 quotes by 32 authors
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It is the quality of patriotism to be jealous and watchful, to observe all secret machinations, and to see publick dangers at a distance. The…
— Samuel Johnson
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We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it…
— James Anthony Froude
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The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; [this is the central theme of John's Gospel:] When brought before…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the…
— John Stuart Mill
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It’s as if your kind needs adversity in order to achieve. (Leta) No, we don’t. That’s just a lie people tell themselves to feel better…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks…
— Booker T. Washington
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Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.
— Piers Anthony
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This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing…
— Charles Dickens
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And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all…
— Lysander Spooner
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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the…
— Mark Twain
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The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it.…
— Marianne Williamson
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The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.
— Samuel Johnson
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