Their Proper Quotes
57 quotes by 55 authors
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see…
— Joseph Addison
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When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution, and placed later…
— Karl Ernst von Baer
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All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper…
— Og Mandino
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Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places.
— Judith Sargent Murray
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To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
— James Madison
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot…
— Joseph Addison
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Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.
— William Walker
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No other art-medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Had the white settlers in North America called the natives 'Americans' instead of 'Indians', the early Americans could not have said that the 'only good…
— Thomas Szasz
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Declare church and state forever separate and distinct; but each free within their proper spheres.
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and…
— Plato
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When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so…
— Stanislaw Lem
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I like things in their proper places.
— Alan Sugar
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How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is…
— Marcus Aurelius
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All things happen in their proper time. Everything in life happens in the time allocated for it. Don't waste energy worrying about end results. Worrying…
— James Van Praagh
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The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the…
— Richard Preston
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What great philosophers do for us is not to hand out such an all-purpose system. It is to light up and clarify some special aspect…
— Mary Midgley
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That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to…
— Samuel Johnson
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