John Tillotson Quotes
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.John Tillotson
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
Ted Lange -
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong -
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler -
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
Edmund Husserl
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo -
Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza -
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw -
It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.
Neil Diamond
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
Han Suyin -
You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!
Rachel Caine -
Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo
Ed Parker -
For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
Ziggy Marley -
For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.
Alan Alda
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A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
Cecil B. DeMille -
We were totally confident that we would make it internationally. We had no money or instruments. We used cake tins or bottles with water in them - anything to make sounds.
Morten Harket A-ha -
When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.
Emily Gould -
The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history.
Miguel de Unamuno -
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
John Tillotson