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- All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke
- Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place… — Thomas Carlyle
- Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed… — Claude Bernard
- A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of… — John Henry Newman
- The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or… — Adam Smith
- Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking,… — St. Vincent
- Christians, for instance, are not, properly speaking, believers in religion; rather, they believe that Jesus of Nazareth, crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose… — David Bentley Hart
- Until the building of Solomons temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover,… — Julius Wellhausen
- Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. — Pierre Bayle
- Though actually the work of man's hands - or, more properly speaking, the work of his travelling feet, - roads have long… — Richard Le Gallienne
- The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is… — George Orwell