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Source: A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture

“The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance over their representatives, and reserve for themselves...the right to discard them if they betray their trust, and to revoke the powers which them might have abused.”

People Ifs Might Order Enjoy Freedom Liberty Exercise Constant Active Betray Representatives Reserves Resorts Surveillance

Author:Benjamin Constant

“Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.”

World Inspirational Self Motivational Break Pieces Active Self Discipline Willpower Will Power Ardent Will And Determination Stools Self Will

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil

“This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are.”

Body Action Heaven Fire Tired Heavy Active Heavenly Our Thoughts Nimble Heavenly Bodies

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons

“If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name.”

Ifs Knows Life Country Play Names Language Pay Known Creatures Wings Plant Active Chess Flying Metals Butterfly Hunts Tribute Traders Snares Stravinsky Precious Metal

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.”

Men Hands Causes Constant Historical Active Innocent Woven Degrade

Author:Abigail Adams

“My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.”

Way Wells Play Born Player Taught Dad Band Late Musician Standards Areas Jazz My Dad Come Up Radio Active Fantastic Piano Tunes Boston Trumpets

Author:Chick Corea

“Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.”

States Remember Mother Father Wealth Opinion Principles Land Members Consequence Labor Killing Active

Author:William Petty

“Drawing never dies, it holds on by the skin of its teeth, because the hunger it satisfies – the desire for an active, investigative, manually vivid relation with the things we see and yearn to know about – is apparently immortal.”

Knows Desire Dies Skins Relation Hunger Active Drawing Teeth Immortal Vivid

Author:Robert Hughes

“In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.”

Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author

“We want no dictatorship of physicists, as physicists. If our democracy is to realize its full promise, we want no dictatorship at all - of any species. What we want and need is the enlightened and active interest of all men of intelligence and goodwill in their government, and their participation in its functions.”