“The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them.” CareFoundFineDependsDistinctionBelongingOfficersInvestigationIndifferentInattention Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799 Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799
“One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.” BelieveHas BeensDoneFeelingsReligionTurnsWomenModernEffectsSweetDependsIntellectualCommunicateInventionTherapyDistinctionRelativeProtestantism Author:Flannery O'Connor
“No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit.” MenPersonsOrderBornChanceAbilityDependsCircumstancesNobleMeritDistinctionDispositionPublic ServiceParadesAncestryNotoriousAmiableInsolencePedigree Author:Seneca the Younger