Proper Quotes

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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right. — Baltasar Gracian
I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language. — Taki Theodoracopulos
A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man. — Marcus Aurelius
The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this… — C.S. Lewis
Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable. — John Wooden
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it. — Charles Kettering
The judgment is an utensil proper for all subjects, and will have an oar in everything. — Michel de Montaigne
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be… — Mark Twain
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above… — Oscar Wilde
By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea,… — Booker T. Washington
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol… — Thomas Carlyle
Positive health requires a knowledge of man's primary constitution and of the powers of various foods, both those natural to them and those resulting from… — Hippocrates
People don't simply wake up one day and commit genocide. They start by setting themselves apart from others, diminishing the stature of those adhering to… — Michael Newdow
As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS. — Steven Moffat
Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week. — Darrell Huff
We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it… — Jules Renard
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of… — W. Somerset Maugham
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and… — George Santayana
I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander… — James Joyce
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use. — Ben Jonson
The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. — Oliver Goldsmith
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. — John Milton
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a view of the… — James Madison
Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced,… — James Madison

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