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Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.

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The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!

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Although I may express myself with some degree of pleasantry the purport of my words is entirely serious.

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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

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I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed.

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The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

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Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

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Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

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Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

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We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

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The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be

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Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

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How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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The degree of a nation’s civilization can be seen in the way it treats its prisoners

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There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

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Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.

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Investors should remember that their scorecard is not computed using Olympic-diving methods: Degree-of-difficulty doesn't count. If you are right about a business whose value is largely dependent on a single key factor that is both easy to understand and enduring, the payoff is the same as if you had correctly analyzed an investment alternative characterized by many constantly shifting and complex variables.

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