Such Quotes
16024 Such quotes by 7769 unique authors
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We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what…
— John Selden
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Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
— John Henry Newman
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Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.
— Oscar Wilde
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[The papists] ought to have sympathy with us weak, poor Christians, and not condemn us or make fun of us because we are learning so…
— Martin Luther
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EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a…
— Malcolm X
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Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States.…
— Abraham Lincoln
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But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such as private charity,…
— Ronald Reagan
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I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither…
— Albert Einstein
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The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such…
— James Madison
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It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.…
— James Madison
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
— Samuel Johnson
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.
— E. W. Howe
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We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but…
— Walter Savage Landor
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Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
— Albert Einstein
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... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act…
— Thomas Jefferson
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