Salutary Quotes
44 quotes by 37 authors
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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
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
— William Wordsworth
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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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
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The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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