Favors Quote by Giovanni Ruffini

“Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.” quote by Giovanni Ruffini — Download Open image

“Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.”

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Beauty is an exquisite flower, and its perfume is virtue.

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Offended self-love never forgives.

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If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind.

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The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

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Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past.

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Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

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“A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.”

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Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of…

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It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought to favor this right and, so far as it can, see that the largest possible number among the masses of the population prefer to own property… But if the productive activity of the multitude can be…

Pope Leo XIII

Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind from you. What He wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of…

Wallace D. Wattles

A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or…

Archibald Cox

God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency of His…

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About one-half of the members of Congress are seekers for office at the nomination of the President. Of the remainder, at least one-half have…

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A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

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Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…

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