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Tag Name "Reckons" (12)

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What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself?
Blaise Pascal
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I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.
H. G. Wells
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years and every little absence is an age.
John Dryden
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The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
Pierre de Coubertin
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Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles
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To me, an economy that sees the life of a community or a place as expendable, and reckons its value only in terms of money, is not acceptable because it is not realistic. I am thinking as I believe we must think if we wish to discuss the best uses of people, places, and things, and if we wish to give affection some standing in our thoughts.
Wendell Berry
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Faith creates nothing it simply reckons upon that which is already there.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
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He who reckons ten friends has not one.
Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
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That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.
John Calvin
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Faith is a reasoning trust, a trust which reckons thoughtfully and confidently upon the trustworthiness of God.
John Stott
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
Plautus
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Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
Thomas Huxley