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“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

Heart Inspiring Healing Equal Charm Tenderness Jane Girly

Book:Emma: By Jane Austen

Source: Emma: By Jane Austen

“The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.”

May Important Ability Fate Depends Ought Equal Kingdoms Command Chiefs Stations Possessed Commanders Commander In Chief Admiral

Book:Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)

Source: Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)

“We really have to be willing to find out who we are instead of rebelling for the equal rights that we've been denied, that we do deserve.”

Rights Willing Equal Deserve Who We Are Denied Equal Rights

Author:Andrew Cohen

“We should begin by setting conscience free. When all men of all religions shall enjoy equal liberty, property, and an equal chance for honors and power we may expect that improvements will be made in the human character and the state of society.”

Source: The Works of John Adams Vol. 8: Letters and State Papers 1782 - 1799

“Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.”

Thinking Seems Christian Religious Pleasure Equal Add Great Things Enjoyment

Book:A serious call to a devout & holy life, abridged

Source: A serious call to a devout & holy life, abridged

“In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.”

Made Law Poor Struggle Rich Influence Equal Members Property Expected Assembly Rich And Poor Plunder Fleece

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.”

Men Way Learning Genius Equal Purses Single Man

Book:The Advancement of Learning

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“So, the struggle for equal educational opportunity continues.”

Opportunity Struggle Equal Educational

Author:Bobby Scott

“All men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws”

Men Law Liberty Rights Equal Property Equality Protection Equal Rights

Author:Voltaire

“Trying harder doesn’t always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up.”

Giving Trying Equal Giving Up Harder Satisfaction Frustration

Book:No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running

Source: No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running

“Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined. And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other. A physical relationship does not equal love.”

People Heart Mean Doe Two Body Mets Equal Lips Equal Love

Author:Joshua Harris

“The Inexhaustible Resource of Spirit is equal to every demand. There is no reality in lack. Abundance is here and now manifest.”

Reality Spirit Demand Equal Resources Abundance Manifest Here And Now

Author:Charles Fillmore

“It is giving me a great satisfaction, because I had the notion that we could make great wines equal to the greatest wines in the world, and everybody said it was impossible.”

World Giving Said Impossible Equal Wine Notion Satisfaction Great Wine

Author:Robert Mondavi

“The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.”

Sometimes Earth America Names Liberty Gone Please Equal Vain Curse Sigh Stamps Decree Foam Liberty And Equality

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Mortals are equal; their mask differs.”

Equal Equality Mortals Mask

Author:Voltaire

“We can continue our progress as a Nation toward the promise that all people are created equal and that our Nation will treat every person in that spirit.”

People Persons Spirit Nations Progress Promise Equal Treats

Author:Bobby Scott

“When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.”

Writing Justice Equal All Things Revealing Transparency Glare

Book:Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

“All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”

Men Natural Liberty Ought Equal Authority Independent Possession Equality Harm Every Man

Author:John Locke

“He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.”

Eye Certain Strong Heard Equal Mathematics Math Certainty Witness Mathematical Probability

Author:Voltaire

“Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.”

Easy Fool Equal Bird Combination Decency Sentimentality Beaks

Book:Despair

Source: Despair

“Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.”

Wells Doe Purpose Circumstances Equal Angel Deeds Firm

Book:Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality

Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality

“Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.”

Body Jesus Equal Proportion Trust In God Brides Commitment To God

Book:Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth

Source: Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth

“The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.”

Men Firsts States Animal Progress Policy Equal Clothings Shelter

Book:Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression

“The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.”

Giving Real Numbers Equal Representatives Real Power

Book:The Public Letters of John Bright

Source: The Public Letters of John Bright

“Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!”

Said Sleep Poor Rich Equal Bridges Damn Oscars Wilde

Author:Al Lewis

“If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Character Stories Happens Asks Pieces Land Equal Ask Me Location Ecological Viewpoints

Author:Mike Mills

“Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind.”

Mind Looks Play Shows Poverty Equal Rounds Owners Jail Estates Wrecks

Book:Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete

Source: Gay's Fables: In One Volume Complete

“Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.”

Firsts Lasts Deals Equal Excellence Wit Ambiguity Oracles Imposter

Book:The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life

Source: The complete poetical works of Edward Young. With life

“Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.”

Men Hands Numbers Equal All Time Productive Fund Perpetual Maintenance Frugal Misconduct Parsimony

Author:Adam Smith

“Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal.”

Remember Equal Separate But Equal

Author:Paul Martin

“We have come far, but there is an ongoing battle to be fought. Many of the issues the Suffragettes were dealing with are still issues today across the globe: equal pay, parental rights, sexual abuse, etc.”

Stills Today Pay Issues Rights Battle Equal Abuse Etc Globes Ongoing Parental Equal Pay Suffragettes Parental Rights

Author:Sarah Gavron

“In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about compatibility and compassion. And it's amazing.”

People World Feels Important Character Strong Compassion Equal Males Counterparts Compatibility

Author:Haifaa al-Mansour

“I think squaring up success to equal money is silly, because it's so undeserved.”

Thinking Equal Silly

Author:Steven Conrad

“Equal partners aren't always what we envision as being manifestly equal. Equality can come in many different shapes and sizes and combinations.”

Different Shapes Equal Size Partners Combination Different Shapes And Sizes

Author:Ben Kingsley

“On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.”

People Want Firsts Ideas Felt Sides Hell Week Prove Equal Projects Admire Nerves Flip Prove Myself New Projects

Author:Dave Franco

“Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.”

People Thinking Animal Class Rights Planets Citizens Equal Thirds Equal Rights

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.”

Film Fiction Successful Equal Novelists Successful Women

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.”

World Kids Wanted School Term Equal Intellect Treated Massive Being A Kid

Author:Ezra Miller

“Technology is a liberation. I think the information age probably is the best thing to happen to the human race in human evolution. Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.”

“I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.”

People Needs Feels Grows Class Principles Teacher Students Equal Comfortable Uncomfortable Paradox Good Teacher Invoke

Author:Erica Brown

“Puerto Rican independence movement wasn't just rooted in some sort of personal intransigence or some passionate Latino temperament. It was rooted in economic and political reality at the time. It also made sense since the founding principles of the United States are supposedly based on government by the consent of the governed, and the sense that all men are created equal.”

“There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well - that really makes me happy. The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.”

Knows Wells I Can Two Pleasure Know How Equal Findings Two Things Helpful Make Me Happy

Author:Alan Alda

“It's exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that. That's an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.”

Two Country Helping Used Sides Class Wonderful Students Emotional Equal Exciting Very Good Developing Fifteen Nurture Good Writers Exciting Things Good Students

Author:Alan Lightman

“My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.”

Mind Has Beens Soul Whole Body Opportunity Rights Equal Whole Life Equal Rights Mind Body Mind Body And Soul

Author:Billie Jean King

“Women wanted to be viewed as equals to men. So men were like, 'You wanna be viewed as equal to me, then open your own damn door.' But I still don't view it as an excuse to be an a**hole.”

Men Stills Wanted Views Doors Like You Equal Excuse Holes Damn Women Want

Author:Ne-Yo

“I think the election of [Barack] Obama was a great step to prove to the world that we believe that all men were created equal. I think it will show that we have humility.”

Thinking Men World Believe Shows Steps Humility Prove Equal Election Barack

Author:Kirk Douglas

“Borrow neither money nor time from your neighbor; both are of equal value.”

Values Equal Neighbor

Author:Francis Quarles

“A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high.”

Water Air Feet Equal Weight Atmosphere Reaching Cylinders

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

“Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.”

“When we are asleep, we are all equal.”

Author:Miguel de Cervantes