Preserves Quotes - Page 11

• Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

  John Quincy Adams

  Power, People, Liberty

  "Novanglus or A History of the Dispute with America, From Its Origin in 1754 to the Present Time (Essay No. 3)". Essays by John Quincy Adams, first published in the Boston Gazette, 1774-1775.

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• The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

  Joseph Addison

  Lust, Literature, Firsts

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.156

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• For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

  Aeschylus

  Children, Men, Literature

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• In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

  Tadao Ando

  Religious, Church, Trying

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• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

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• If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Inspirational, Softball, Powerful

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• You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

  Corazon Aquino

  Freedom, Land, People

  Corazon Cojuangco Aquino (1986). “Democracy by the Ways of Democracy: Speeches of President Corazon C. Aquino, Official Visit to the United States of America September 15-24, 1986”

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• Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

  Francis Bacon

  Fire, May, Fame

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.627

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• There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

  Francis Bacon

  Hurt, Health, Men

  Francis Bacon, Brian Vickers (1999). “The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Death, Time, Destiny

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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• For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it self that natural Heat which preserves its Globe: And in the Onion, the Germ is the little Sun of that little World, which vivifies and nourishes the vegetative Salt of that little mass.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Apples, Self, Salt

  Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.16, 谷月社

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• Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

  Anita Brookner

  Writing, Attention, Innocence

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• A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Together, Would Be

  Edmund Burke (1798). “The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from the Writings, &c. of that Extraordinary Man, Alphabetically Arranged ... to which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Life, with Some Original Anecdotes of Mr. Burke”, p.383

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• Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

  Leo Burnett

  Inspirational, Fun, Creativity

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

  Richard Burton

  Dream, Memories, Men

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• Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

  David Byrne

  Past, Why Not, Building

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• Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Lifetime, Source

  "Pretensions: Adieu, Adieu, Albert Camus" by Joe Queenan, reason.com. March 1990.

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• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Strength, Happiness, Power

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• The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Vanity

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• It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Grief, Loss

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• It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

  William Ellery Channing

  Important, Compass, Objects

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• We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

  Cesar Chavez

  Diversity, Community, Parent

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• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Health, Science, Always Trying

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• You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Hate, Loving Life, Men

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• Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

  James Cromwell

  Responsibility, Pet, Care

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