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Letter "O" » observances
«I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
emphasis, enforcement, law enforcement, observance, observances
«Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
conscientious, energetic, good luck, handmaid, handmaids, observance, observances, upright
«One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Life,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
crowded, decorum, observances, one hour, paltry, to the full
«One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
crowded, decorum, marsh, marshes, observances, one hour, paltry, sluggish, to the full, waters
«As the observance of divine institutions is the cause of the greatness of republics, so the disregard of them produces their ruin; for where the fear of God is wanting, there the country will come to ruin, unless it be sustained the fear of the princ»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
Fear of God, observance, observances, republics, sustained
«The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Church
| Keywords:
fasts, feasts, observances, tolerably, well-kept
«A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
citizen, doubtless, higher law, obligation, observance, observances, of necessity, preservation, saving, self preservation, strict, stricter, strictest
«Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
modesty, observance, observances, overstep, overstepped, suit, the Action
«It is a custom. More honored in the breach than the observance.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
breach, breached, custom, honored, observance, observances
«But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom more honored in the breach than the observance»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
breach, breached, custom, honored, native, observance, observances
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