Quotes with ought

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  • Sean O'Casey There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Avicenna Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Calvin Coolidge They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Anthony Trollope Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Mark Twain To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Edmund Burke To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Mark Twain To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • C. L. R. James Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Jerome of Stridon True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
    Jerome of Stridon
    Church Father and Saint (347 - 420)
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  • Arthur Herzog Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Francis Bacon We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Havelock Ellis We cannot be sure that we ought not to regard the most criminal country as that which in some aspects possesses the highest civilization.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • William Hazlitt We do not say that a man to be a critic must necessarily be a poet: but to be a good critic, he ought not to be a bad poet.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Abraham Lincoln We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Mark Twain We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead - and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Plutarch We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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