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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
Matthew Simpson

Faith, Great, Past

It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself.
Lajos Kossuth

Europe, York, Connected

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
William Bartram

Great, Strength, Young

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.
John Tillotson

Men, Wise, Fools

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.
John Strachan

Hope, Government, Means

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
John Buchanan Robinson

Financial, Present, Paper

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore

Experience, Cannot, Seems

We sought out and visited all the Indians hereabouts that we could meet with, in number about twenty. They were chiefly in one place, about a mile from where we lodged.
John Woolman

Place, Number, Meet

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.
John Moody

History, Control, Since

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin

After, Matter, Painting

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
Nelson A. Miles

War, Trade, Relations

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Margaret Oliphant

Life, Art, Long

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.
Kingsley Amis

Faith, Sense, Church

If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.
Robert Quillen

Mind, Give, Attention

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Patrick White

Age, Poetry, Writing

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Charles Churchill

Great, Acting, Lies

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Women, Men, Perfect

I do not value religion chiefly for its morality.
Leon Wieseltier

Religion, Value, Morality

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.
George Gilder

Women, Men, Young

The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
Francis Lockier

Book, Understand, Others

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.
Cole Younger

Before, Around, Another

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