"As we read the school reports on our……" — Joseph Priestley
"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us."
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Joseph Priestley
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21 Quotes by Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley has 21 quotes on this site.
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
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The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined.…
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It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the…
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he…
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are…
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider…
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of…
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no…
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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