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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

People, Government, Constitution, Moral

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

Time, Trust, Never, Us, Senses, Deceived

It is no compliment to be the stupidly idolised master of a dog whose instinct it is to idolise, but it is a very distinct tribute to be chosen as the friend and confidant of a philosophic cat who is wholly his own master and could easily choose another companion if he found such an one more agreeable and interesting. H. P. Lovecraft

Dog, Friend, Interesting, Compliment

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. - Ludwig van Beethoven

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. Ludwig van Beethoven

Fate, Me, Overcome, Never, Seize, Will

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. Margaret Fuller

Great, Man, Woman, Sides, Two, Fact

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God. Charles Spurgeon

Alone, God, Me, Sin, Done, Goodness

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, Decisions, Men, Value, Up

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, Purpose, People, America, World

If we want to make this great State of Pakistan happy and prosperous, we should wholly and solely concentrate on the well-being of the people, and especially of the masses and the poor. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Great, Happy, People, Well-Being, Want

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

Water, Sky, Mirror, Mind, Self, Trees

Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man. John Wycliffe

Faith, Man, God, Trust, Sin, Person

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. P. G. Wodehouse

Funny, End, Gun, You, Wrong, Right

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

People, Office, Purse, Stealing, Where

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them. Marjory Stoneman Douglas

World, Unique, Earth, Nothing, Always

My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father. Louis MacNeice

Father, Sister, School, Brother, Ideas

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

Strength, Fear, Power, Resistance

A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep. H. P. Lovecraft

Dog, Alone, Sleep, Know, Lost, Him

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, Shame, Minds, Virtue, Moderation

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God. Ignatius of Antioch

God, You, Deceive, Deceived, Devoted

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

Motivational, Life, Exercise, Some

England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution. John C. Calhoun

Day, Government, Revolution, Free, Lost

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, Morning, Truth, Men, Discovery

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. Charles Dudley Warner

Conformity, Without, Half, Ruined

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, Relationship, Tree, Roots

Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him? Brother Lawrence

Love, Business, God, Simple, Men, World

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth. Paul Twitchell

Teacher, Path, Truth, Past, Feet, Living

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