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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man… — Teresa of Avila
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As… — Teresa of Avila
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. — Samuel Butler
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;… — Thomas Carlyle
One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to find… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such, that unless our… — John Hessin Clarke
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed… — George Washington
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as… — Maria Montessori
God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the… — Louis Berkhof
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here… — George Bernard Shaw
When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works… — Benjamin Franklin
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation. — Ramana Maharshi
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living… — Henry David Thoreau
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to… — Woody Allen
The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential… — James Madison
Students of reading, writing and common arithmetick . . . Graecian [Greek], Roman, English and American history . . . should be rendered . .… — Thomas Jefferson
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and… — James Madison
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson

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