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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

Government, Made, Moral

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Great, Men

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Worth, Name

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
Marilyn Monroe

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, True, Keeping

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes

Trust, Time, Once

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore Roosevelt

Between, Office, Stealing

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley

Absence, Complete, Talents

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Exercise, Devoted

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
Thomas Paine

Power, Strength, Fear

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous Huxley

Beauty, Men, Morning

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Thomas Paine

Yourself, Through, Others

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle

Bad, Once, Laughed

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus

Yourself, May, Issue

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke

Heart, Minds, Nor

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life, Love, Die

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
W. Somerset Maugham

Good, Bad, Through

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.
Brandon Boyd

Great, Everything, Give

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Culture, Speech

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
Max Muller

Family, Old, Memory

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka

Alone, Wait, Leave

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Thomas Aquinas

Away, Moral, Perfection

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
Paul Cezanne

Art, Heart, Pure

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin

Nature, Give, Understand

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
Lysander Spooner

Government, Honest, Support

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
George H. W. Bush

Today, America, Moral

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.
Indra Devi

Mind, True, Long

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
Hannah Arendt

Freedom, Successful, Cannot

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier

Yourself, Through, Virtues

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning

God, Alone, Progress

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