Salutary Quotes

44 quotes by 37 authors

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison… — Johann Arndt
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. — William Wordsworth
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to… — Howard Evans
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a… — Thomas Jefferson
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken… — James Madison
[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established .… — Thomas Jefferson
That there is something in advice very useful and salutary, seems to be equally confessed on all hands; since even those that reject it, allow… — Samuel Johnson
The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The explosion was good. It sent a message to the rest of the world that the time of the big star getting all this money… — Sumner Redstone
To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide… — Samuel Johnson
When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such warnings -- let… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely defeated, and the… — Andrew Jackson
A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should… — John Harvey Kellogg
The American business man cannot consider his work done when he views the income balance in black at the end of an accounting period. It… — Colby Mitchell Chester
A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price… — Thomas Jefferson
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. — Samuel Richardson

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