"What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets…" — Chauncey Wright
"What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be"
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14 Quotes by Chauncey Wright
Chauncey Wright has 14 quotes on this site.
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature…
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Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge…
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And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress…
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Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
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Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards…
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The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.
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By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may,…
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The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
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We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of…
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Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which…
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If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption…
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More Duty Quotes
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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