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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
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is. — Lord Chesterfield
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination. — Andre Gide
Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself. — Saadi
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou went by. — George Linley
We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us… — Malcolm X
Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which… — Abraham Lincoln
At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was… — Abraham Lincoln
I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins. — Samuel Adams
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of… — James Madison
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe… — Thomas Jefferson
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. — Mark Twain
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. — Samuel Johnson
If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what… — Jonathan Swift
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. — Abraham Lincoln
Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. — Horace
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as… — Charles Caleb Colton
How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we… — William James
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter. — Erich Fromm

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