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Letter "O" » observance
«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
«DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.His right to govern me is clear as day, My duty manifest to disobey; And if that fit observance e'er I shut May I and duty be alike undone. --Israfel Brown»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
celebrate, disobey, disobeyed, disobeying, observance, undone
«DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to the reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed the most unexpected and deplorable consequences sometimes ensue. A long time ago a man lost his life in a duel.That dueling's a gentlemanly vice I hold; and wish that it had been my lot To live my life out in some favored spot -- Some country where it is considered nice To split a rival like a fish, or slice A husband like a spud, or with a shot Bring down a debtor doubled in a knot And ready to be put upon the ice. Some miscreants there are, whom I do long To shoot, to stab, or some such way reclaim The scurvy rogues to better lives and manners, I seem to see them now --a mighty throng. It looks as if to challenge _me_ they came, Jauntily marching with brass bands and banners! --Xamba Q. Dar»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
awkwardly, bands, banners, brass, brass band, brass bands, bring down, ceremony, debtor, deplorable, doubled, duel, duels, ensue, ensued, ensues, ensuing, formal, gentlemanly, jauntily, knot, long shot, Long To, marching, miscreant, observance, performed, preliminary, put-upon, reclaim, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims, reconciliation, rival, rogues, satisfactory, scurvy, split, spud, throng, thronged, thronging
«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
«It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.»
«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
«How necessary was the care of the Creator in making the moral principle so much a part of our constitution as that no errors reasoning or of speculation might lead us astray from its observance in practice.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
astray, in practice, moral principle, observance, speculation
«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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