Proper Quotes

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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in… — Aleister Crowley
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly… — Alexander Pope
Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no… — Kenneth Grahame
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I stand before you a free man. Free in body, free in spiret and free in mind! It has… — Don King
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot… — Joseph Addison
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation… — Unknown Author
The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the… — Pope Benedict XVI
There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony. — Eddy Grant
What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. — Mark Twain
Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places. — William Walker
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time. — Ovid
The mission of the law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even though the law may be acting in a… — Frederic Bastiat
When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of… — Thomas Jefferson
Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. ... Guard with… — Patrick Henry
The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long… — Eugene V. Debs
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't… — Amitav Ghosh
Instead of the function of governing, for which it is radically unfit, the proper office of a representative assembly is to watch and control the… — John Stuart Mill
There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor… — Andrew Carnegie
Do not many of us who fail to achieve big things. . .fail because we lack concentration--the art of concentrating the mind on the thing… — John D. Rockefeller
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it. — Giovanni Boccaccio
It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of… — William Rehnquist
No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in… — Ingmar Bergman

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