"Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty." — Hannah More
"Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty."
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Hannah More
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56 Quotes by Hannah More
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In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech,…
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Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has…
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire…
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In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
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In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain…
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There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no…
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Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man,…
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Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not…
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How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they…
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Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.
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More Depart Quotes
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this…
— H.G. Wells
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when…
— Seneca the Younger
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During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned -…
— Peter Drucker
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Journey quietly on your pathway to forever with charity & a smile. When you depart it will be said by…
— Og Mandino
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force…
— Milton Friedman
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in…
— Khalil Gibran
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We will be able to depart this life with the quiet peace-giving notion, that we were permitted to contribute to…
— Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
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[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess.…
— C. D. Broad
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It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no…
— Meister Eckhart
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