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Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.

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...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

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The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

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I want to live out principles that became a part of my life in my 40s, 50s, and 60s. One principle is the universality of freedom.

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Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

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He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)

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The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

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Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.

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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

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True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

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[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

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The propagation of truth and nonviolence can be done less by books than by actually living on those principles.

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We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles.

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If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

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All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.

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Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

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One principle is the universality of freedom. I'm a freedom lover.

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