A Quote by James Mill
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
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Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force
I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.
These are not exhortations from overwrought extremists, but carefully phrased warnings from some of the world's finest scientists.
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
For they had learned that true safety was to be found in long previous training, and not in eloquent exhortations uttered when they were going into action.
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word; I therefore extracted from philosophers principles of science; from historians remarkable facts; from chymists complete processes; from divines striking exhortations; and from poets beautiful descriptions.
Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.
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I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
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