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What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.
. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.
INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation.
The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.
We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.
There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . .
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.
The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.
We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most.
Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.
The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.
... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.
If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.
I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.
The eternal wisdom of God ... has shown itself forth in all things, but chiefly in the mind of man, and most of all in Jesus Christ.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.
Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.
Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively in the evening.
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
All the extraordinary men I have ever known were chiefly extraordinary in their own estimation.
He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.
It is the cringer to his equal that is chiefly seen bold to his God.
Why, Mrs. Piper has a good deal to say, chiefly in parentheses and without punctuation, but not much to tell.
Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.
Think tanks are chiefly supposed to provide independent expertise to policymakers. But they also seek to be politically relevant.
If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
The vulgar crowd always is taken by appearances, and the world consists chiefly of the vulgar.
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy and kindness.
A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.
We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.
