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We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington

Religion, Good, Great

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau

Business, Successful, Him

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love, Nature, Someone

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Morality, Principle

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Samuel Johnson

Life, Success, Another

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Samuel Johnson

Human, Place, Public

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
John Burroughs

Work, Heart, Blessed

Clarity affords focus.
Thomas Leonard

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
Kate Millett

Love, Romantic, Emotional

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
James J. Gibson

Value, Meaning, Consists

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.
Samuel Richardson

Love, True, Person

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
David Mamet

Religion, Spiritual, Feeling

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.
Martin Van Buren

Able, Nation, Pleasure

To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
Charles Babbage

History, Knowledge, Science

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Madame de Stael

God, Sense, Word

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).
Don Cheadle

Time, Place, Film

I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.
Nick Offerman

Try, Hands, Encourage

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
Todd Akin

Life, Marriage, Family

The fun is getting to wear multiple disguises and getting to explore multiple personalities and bring them to life. So a movie career definitely affords me that.
Jenna Fischer

Life, Fun, Career

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

Far, Election, Security

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
Armistead Maupin

Time, Great, Deal

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
James Payn

Good, Great, Food

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Josiah Warren

Often, Almost, Labor

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye

Beauty, Truth, Ego

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.
Phylicia Rashad

Nothing, Different, Why

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.
Foxy Brown

God, Moment, Again

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
William Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Hope, Perhaps

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
Macy Gray

Freedom, Live, Whatever

The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.
William Whipple

Good, Water, Abundance

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.
John Sterling

Lords, Tyrants, Affections

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