Ought Quote by William Lyon Phelps

“If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.”

William Lyon Phelps

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In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

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I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form…

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There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.

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Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the…

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Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company,…

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Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.

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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to…

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The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

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Never try to outsmart a woman, unless you are another woman.

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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

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Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases…

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This, at last, was where things were as they ought to be. Everything was in its place -- the tree, the earth underneath, the rock, the moss. In autumn, it would be right; in winter under the snow, it would be perfect in its wintriness. Spring would come again and miracle within miracle would unfold, each at its special pace,…

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The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…

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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh…

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The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

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Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before…

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We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of all-especially for young physicians-we ought to throw in no medicine at all-to abstain-to…

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We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as…

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