"Money confounds subordination." — Samuel Johnson
"Money confounds subordination."
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Samuel Johnson
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
— Edmund Burke
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Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
— Joseph Joubert
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
— William Hazlitt
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An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of…
— Roger Williams
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When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and…
— Mencius
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Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it…
— Andrew Peterson
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Is it acting a true vocation?... I say it is a gift...And fame? Neither sought nor expected... still confounds and…
— Ruth Cracknell
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Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings…
— Tertullian
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The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole…
— Kadmi Cohen
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No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
— William Shakespeare
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The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
— William Shakespeare
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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