Profusion Quotes

38 quotes by 34 authors

We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in… — William Hazlitt
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. — Benjamin Disraeli
Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books… — Jeffrey Eugenides
To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or… — Thomas Jefferson
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars;… — Andre Malraux
Iâ€™ll admit that my garden now grows hope in lavish profusion, leaving little room for anything else. I suppose it has squeezed out more practical… — Sharon Kay Penman
Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the… — Fernando Pessoa
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of… — T.H. White
God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the profusion… — Christopher Hitchens
If a thing can be said in ten words, I may be relied upon to take a hundred to say it. I ought to apologize… — Stephen Fry
I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion… — Henry David Thoreau
At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism. — Virginia Postrel
In recurring episodes over the next couple of decades, the minority view gradually won. A profusion of factors differentiates each case from the others, including… — Michael Kinsley
A woman of fortune being used the handling of money, spends it judiciously; but a woman who gets the command of money for the first… — Samuel Johnson
Pale and pinched-up faces hovered about the windows where was tempting food; hungry eyes wandered over the profusion guarded by one thin sheet of brittle… — Charles Dickens

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