Solicitude Quotes
37 quotes by 32 authors
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
— Jane Austen
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can…
— Sun Tzu
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Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men, not sensitive and introspective. It…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Men have solicitude about fame; and the greater share they have of it, the more afraid they are of losing it.
— Samuel Johnson
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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise…
— John Calvin
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Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.…
— Samuel Johnson
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for ever unheeded in the mighty…
— Samuel Johnson
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or say that others are fine…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Continue to walk in the faith and, faithful to the mandate that has been entrusted to you, go out with solicitude and joy toward all…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Our Pastoral solicitude induces us to earnestly protect and preserve in everything and especially in the sacred rites of the Church the best and old…
— Pope Clement VIII
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O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus,…
— Gemma Galgani
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The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of…
— James Madison
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Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I…
— Jiang Zemin
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I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one of the dearest…
— George Santayana
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Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you. As you put into practice the qualities of patience, punctuality, sincerity…
— Grenville Kleiser
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To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and…
— Mark Twain
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Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.
— Anthony
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