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real giving gold
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility Charles Caleb Colton
real passion deceit
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
real deceit our-actions
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
real evil lasts
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
real honest strategy
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
reality drawing views
Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.
real character mean
Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
real atmosphere gold
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.
real home thinking
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
goodness capacity
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it. Bill Johnson
goodness expenses moral-perfection
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself. Benjamin Franklin
goodness ends all-things
The good is the end toward which all things tend. Boethius
goodness easier be-good
It's so much easier to do good than to be good. B. C. Forbes
goodness saw
Oh, we saw a lot. My goodness, we saw a lot, Marion Ross
goodness fairs
How near to good is what is fair! Ben Jonson
goodness gracefulness
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. Samuel Butler
goodness shattered filled
Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness. Ali Smith
goodness
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
cruelty england fair medieval
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong. Terry Jones
cruelty exercise holiday mental perfect
To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday. Georgia Witkin
cruelty english-novelist nature
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. Thomas Hardy
cruelty effects ill
One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel
cruelty feeling fragile law limited medium mere reason standing tyranny
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling Felix Frankfurter
cruelty ethnic evolved found genes likely mean multiple survival variations
If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier.
cruelty degree horrors imagine inflict leave pull reader terrible truly uncovered war
I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war. Alan Furst
cruelty dialogue difference education fight hit others peace
If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. Malala Yousafzai
cruelty deliberate incredibly
The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening.