"It is a besetting vice of democracies to……" — James F. Cooper

More Besetting Quotes

This quote is filed under Besetting Quotes, one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. — Samuel Butler
• ... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the… — John Stuart Mill
• Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could… — Fredrik Bajer
• But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your… — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
• I wonder sometimes if I'm the only one spending my life making the same mistake over and over again or… — Karen Joy Fowler
• Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather… — Harry Woodburn Chase
• Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one… — John Owen
• Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins. — J C Ryle
• Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best -… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land,… — Azar Nafisi
• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers,… — Charles Dickens

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