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  • At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • The right-of-centre parties still often compete with left-of-centre ones to proclaim their attachment to all the main programmes of spending, particularly spending on social services of one kind or another. But this foolish as well as muddled. It is foolish because left-of-centre parties will always be able to outbid right-of-centre ones in this auction - after all, that is why they are on the left in the first place. The muddle arises because once we concede that public spending and taxation are than a necessary evil we have lost sight of the core values of freedom.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Party Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : A. V. Dicey Quotes , Sight Quotes , Evil Quotes
  • Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Faith Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter's at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,--faint copies of an invisible archetype.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Country Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Sight Quotes , Names Quotes
  • The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Sight Quotes , Mind Quotes