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Whereby Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
- Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our…
- REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid…
- RESPIRATOR, n. An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth of an inhabitant of London, whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to…
- REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that…
- A revolution, in politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. The substitution of the rule of an administration for that of a…
- FUNERAL, n. A pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens…
- CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, _Cogito ergo sum_ --whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the…
- TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it…
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- Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. — Ambrose Bierce
- Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved. — Anselm of Canterbury
- Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him. — Thomas Aquinas
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- Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing… — Augustus Toplady
- Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a… — Maxwell Maltz
- All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is… — Sun Tzu
- On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and… — Sun Tzu
- Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure… — Ambrose Bierce
- It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man… — Thomas Aquinas
- Love, the magician, knows this little trick whereby two people walk in different directions yet always remain side by side.... — Hugh Prather
- The object of leadership may be stated as having a system whereby a leader recognizes what is good for the good of… — Arleigh Burke