Quotations Page 'I'

Integrity is praised and starves.

-Juvenal -

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A man of integrity will never listen any plea against conscience.

- Home -

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An honest man's the noblest work of God.

- Pope, Essay on Man -

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The power least prized is that which thinks and feels.

- Wordsworth, Humanity -

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All the wise .... therein really extolling themselves agree that Mind is to us a king of heaven and of earth.

- Plato, Philebus -

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Intellect obscures more than it illumines.

- Zangwill -

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Light has spread and even bayonets think.

- Kossuth -

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Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

- John Viscount Morley -

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No task's too steep for his wit.

- Horace -

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He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

- Quarlles -

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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

- Rochefoucauld -

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And when religious sects ran mad, he held in spite of all his learning. Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of atrue democratic spirit.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

- M. Gandhi.Young India -

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God hath made men upright, but they have sought out many inventions.

- Old Testament -

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Necessity is the mother of invention.

- Anon -

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The devil has a very inventive mind.

- Voltaire -

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I may be a despicable person but when truth speaks through me I am invincible.

- M. Gandhi, The Epic Fast -

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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women equally to have been asked.Look with what courteous acting. It waves you to a more removed ground.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet -

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There is a common saying that when a horse is rubbed on the gall, he will kick.

- Bishop Latimer -

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The Irish are the cry-babies of the Western world. Even the mildest quip will set them off into resolutions and protests.

- Heywood Brown, The piece That Got Me Fired -

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