Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Would Be Quotes, Belief Quotes

If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us.

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I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.

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The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

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The disastrous consequences of widespread European butchery in the future would be even worse.

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I suspected there would be a good-size crowd once the word got out about my hanging.

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Life would be dull without them.

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It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world.

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I believe that the madness of Communism would be the sole victor.

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If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

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I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .

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A courteous, yet harrowing Grace, As Guest, that would be gone

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There is, monks, an unborn, unbecome, unmade, unconditioned. If, monks, there were no unborn... no escape would be discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned. But because there is an unborn..., therefore an escape is discerned from what is born, become, made, conditioned.

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I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

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The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

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Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

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If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government.

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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

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Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

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If I answer questions every time you ask one, expectations would be high. And as you know, I like to keep expectations low.

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