Samuel Parr quotes
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“The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.”
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“Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.”
-- Samuel ParrSource : Samuel Parr (1828). “Works: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.673
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“To do evil is more within the reach of every man, in public as in private life, than to do good.”
-- Samuel ParrSource : Samuel Parr, John Johnstone (1828). “The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.257
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“Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.”
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“To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.”
-- Samuel ParrSource : Samuel Parr, John Johnstone (1828). “The Works of Samuel Parr ...: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, and a Selection from His Correspondence”, p.514
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“Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.”
Source : Russell L. Kleinbach, Karl Marx, Alfred North Whitehead (1982). “Marx via process: Whitehead's potential contribution to Marxian social theory”
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“Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .”
