"They that govern the most make the least…" — John Selden
"They that govern the most make the least noise."
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66 Quotes by John Selden
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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please…
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
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We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it…
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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions…
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case,…
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading,…
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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as…
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To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us,…
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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More Govern Quotes
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
— Lord Acton
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I think we are realising that governments can't govern us any more.
— Antonio Banderas
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
— John Mason Brown
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To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
— Albert Camus
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To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And…
— Joan of Arc
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Men are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.
— Laozi
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God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He…
— Charles Colson
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
— Thomas Paine
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