Quotes with bestow

  • Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

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  • Felix Adler Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Joseph Addison Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Brad Sherman As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Marcel Proust Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Richard Nixon The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Carolyn Wells Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Lord Melbourne Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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