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- For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words in cadence, each beckoned and…
- According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies…
- [Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study…
- The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is…
- In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the…
- Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear.
- The reaction was immediate. The blood flow was in proportion to how much the painting was liked.
- Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.
- I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy Spirit can and…
- No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion.
- Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own…
- Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things,…
- The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations…
- A person understands other's language only in tune with his attitude with most people all the time, so it's wise to act nice with individuals…
- Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished…
- Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.
- If we come to the point of retaining a sense of a proportion in the midst of all the smallest as well as in the…
- The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt,…
- These pages reproduce me very imperfectly, and there are many things in me of which I find no trace in them.I suppose it is because,…
More Proportion Quotes
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake
- To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of… — William Blake