Samuel Parr Quotes

• The excess of the voluptuary, like the austerities of the recluse, triumphs in the suffrage of perverted reason.

  Samuel Parr

  Triumph, Excess, Austerity

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• Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

  Samuel Parr

  Justice, Sound, Policy

  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 Parr

  Men, Evil, Private Life

  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.

  Samuel Parr

  Gratitude, Justice, Virtue

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• To find by experience that friendships are mortal, is the hard but inevitable lot of fallible and imperfect men.

  Samuel Parr

  Friendship, Men, Imperfect

  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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