Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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Women would rather be right than reasonable.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.
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I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.
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I've got a right to knock down anybody holding a bat.
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If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another.
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Franklin’s inquisitive mind craved stimulation, consistently gravitating toward whatever community of intellects asked the most intriguing questions; his expansive temperament sought souls that resonated with his own generosity and sense of virtue. In five years in England he had found more of both than in a lifetime in America. “Of all the enviable things England has,” he told Polly Stevenson, “I envy most its people. Why should that petty island, which compared to America is but like a stepping stone in a brook, scarce enough of it above water to keep one’s shoes dry; why, I say, should that little island enjoy in almost every neighbourhood more sensible, virtuous and elegant minds than we can collect in ranging 100 leagues of our vast forests?” He left such people reluctantly and, he trusted, temporarily.
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Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
