T Quotes
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“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.”
“The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.”
“The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.”
“The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.”
“The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.”
Source: The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; a Sermon [on Deut. Xxvi. 19] ... Second Edition, Corrected
“The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.”
Source: Leopardi: Poems and Prose
“the greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.”
“The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.”
Source: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
“The greater part of the world has, properly speaking, no history, because the despotism of Custom is complete. This is the case over the whole East. Custom is there, in all things, the final appeal; justice and right mean conformity to custom; the argument of custom no one, unless some tyrant intoxicated with power, thinks of resisting. And we see the result. Those nations must once have had originality; they did not start out of the ground populous, lettered, and versed in many of the arts of life; they made themselves all this, and were then the greatest and most powerful nations in the world. What are they now? The subjects or dependants of tribes whose forefathers wandered in the forests when theirs had magnificent palaces and gorgeous temples, but over whom custom exercised only a divided rule with liberty and progress.”
Source: On Liberty
“The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.”
“The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.”
“The greater part performed achieves the less.”
Source: Poetical works
“The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon Divine Grace.”
Source: The Practice of the Presence of God
“The greater person is one of courtesy.”
“The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres.”
Source: Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
“The greater self-confidence an individual possesses, the less inclined he is to put down others. This says a lot about those who constantly belittle.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate.”
“The greater speed and success that distinguish the planting of the human race in this country, over all other plantations in history, owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“The greater success a man has made, the more he fears a climb down.”
Source: The Importance of Living
“The greater the acorn the greater the oak tree.”
“The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.”
“The greater the amount of knowledge you accumulate, the bigger your island gets, but the greater the shoreline of the unknown becomes. In short, the more you know, the more you know you don’t know.”
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]”
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.”
“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”
“The greater the battle - the greater the spoils.”
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.”
“The greater the challenge, the greater the grace of God.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the more they can help them by their prayers; the more they are united with God, the more effective those prayers are. This is in accordance with Divine order, which makes higher things react upon lower things, like the brightness of the sun filling the atmosphere.”
“The greater the complexity of engineering, the greater the architectural density of technology, and the greater the possibility of synthesizing and organically mimicking materials.”
“The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.”
“The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.”
“The greater the crime perpetrated by the leadership, the less likely it is that the people will ever believe their leaders to be capable of perpetrating such an event.”
“The greater the darkness the brighter your light.”
“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”
Source: Illuminations
“The greater the Difficulty the more Glory in surmounting it, and the loss of false Joys secures to us a much better Possession of real ones.”
“The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
“The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.”
“The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.”
Source: De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations
“The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection.”
“The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening”
“The greater the effort, the greater the glory.”
“The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.”
“The greater the faith, the greater the result.”
“The greater the fear, the greater the opportunity for growth.”
“The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.”
“The greater the fool the better the dancer.”
Source: The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook: Life
“The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.”
“The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.”