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Richard T Ely Inspirational Quotes (76)

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An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads.
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Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.
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It is generally true that all that is required to make men unmindful of what they owe to God for any blessing, is, that they should receive that blessing often and regularly.
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Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.
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All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.
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Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.
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Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.
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Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.
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When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.
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Honesty is the best policy but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
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Unless people can be kept in the dark, it is best for those who love the truth to give them the full light.
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Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.
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It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,--that is, without employing the thoughts on the subject.
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Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.
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A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.
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It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.
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The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.
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Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
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It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to show him plainly by examples that there is nothing which may not be thus represented. He will hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke.
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It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.
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Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises and they always poke the fire from the top.
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Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.
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Geologists complain that when they want specimens of the common rocks of a country, they receive curious spars just so, historians give us the extraordinary events and omit just what we want,--the every-day life of each particular time and country.
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As there are dim-sighted people who live in a sort of perpetual twilight, so there are some who, having neither much clearness of head nor a very elevated tone of morality, are perpetually haunted by suspicions of everybody and everything.
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