| Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success. -- Akhenaton |
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AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| Thus I have maintained by English history, that in proportion as the press has been free, English government has been secure. -- Thomas Erskine |
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Erskine, ThomasEra:
1750 |
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| I await the hour when a journalist can be driven from the press room for venal practices, as a minister can be unfrocked, or a lawyer disbarred. -- John Haynes Holmes |
| Author:
Holmes, John H.Era:
1879 |
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| The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express -- Francis Bacon |
| Author:
Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| Of that Equilibrium between Authority and Individual Action which constitutes Free Government, be settling on immutable foundations Liberty with Obedience to Law, Equality with Subjection to Authority, and Fraternity with Subordination to the Wisest and the Best: and of that Equilibrium between the Active Energy of the Will of the Present, expressed by the Vote of the People, and the Passive Stability and Permanence of the Will of the Past, expressed in constitutions of government, written or unwritten, and in laws and customs, gray with age and sanctified by time, as precedents and authority. -- Albert Pike |
| Author:
Pike, AlbertEra:
1809 |
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| The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. -- Marcus Aurelius |
| Author:
Aurelius, MarcusEra:
121 |
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| In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason. -- Heinrich Heine |
| Author:
Heine, HeinrichEra:
1797 |
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| He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. -- Thomas Paine |
| Author:
Paine, ThomasEra:
1737 |
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| There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do. -- Vittorio Alfieri |
| Author:
Alfieri, VittorioEra:
1749 |
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| Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build one hundred and twenty houses, six build seven hundred and twenty houses and seven build five thousand and forty houses. From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear. -- Sepher Yezirah |
| Author:
Yezirah, SepherEra:
-2000 |
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| I am a printer, and a printer of news; ... I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so be it news. -- Ben Johnson |
| Author:
Jonson, BenEra:
1572 |
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| Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. -- Harriet Henry Ward Beecher Stowe |
| Author:
Stowe, Harriet Ward BeecherEra:
1811 |
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| Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed, The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. -- James Montgomery |
| Author:
Montgomery, JamesEra:
1771 |
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| A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author:
Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. -- George Bernard Shaw |
| Author:
Shaw, George BernardEra:
1856 |
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| The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools. -- John Dewey |
| Author:
Dewey, JohnEra:
1859 |
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| Suppressed grief suffocates, it rages within the breast, and is forced to multiply its strength. -- Ovid |
| Author:
OvidEra:
-43 |
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