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• My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. It is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Morning, Godly

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• If you want to nourish a bird, you should let it live any way it chooses. Creatures differ because they have different likes and dislikes. Therefore the sages never require the same ability from all creatures. . . concepts of right should be founded on what is suitable. The true saint leaves wisdom to the ants, takes a cue from the fishes, and leaves willfulness to the sheep.

  Zhuangzi

  Sheep, Likes And Dislikes, Bird

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• Tolerance is just a makeshift, suitable for an overcrowded and overheated planet. It carries on when love gives out, and love generally gives out as soon as we move away from our home and our friends.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Home, Giving

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to "learn." What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying "Know thyself."

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Matter, Study

  "All and Everything: Views from the Real World". Book by G. I. Gurdjieff, 1973.

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• Just because I'm flaunting it doesn't mean you can stare for hours on end. A polite ogle is appreciated and suitable for a flaunt. Slobbering is not.

  Katie MacAlister

  Mean, Appreciated, Hours

  Katie MacAlister (2016). “Blow Me Down”, p.19, Keeper Shelf Books

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• The Word of God makes use of poetic imagery when discussing... formless intelligences but... it does not do so for the sake of art, but as a concession to the nature of our own mind. It uses scriptural passages in an uplifting fashion as a way, provided for us from the first, to uplift our mind in a manner suitable to our nature.

  Pope Dionysius

  Uplifting, Christian, Fashion

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• His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should give us, for He can rightly tell us that we don't know what we're asking for (cf. Mt. 20:22). The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer ? and don't forget this, because it's very important ? should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every possible effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Determination, Prayer

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• Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Hatred, Hated, Contrary

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1845). “Summa Theologica, (Complete)”, p.3052, Library of Alexandria

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• I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.

  Karen Armstrong

  People, Nun

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• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  Teresa of Avila

  Christian, Prayer, Caring

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1995). “The Interior Castle”, Harpercollins

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• Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

  Honore de Balzac

  Suicide, Keys, Paris

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Mother, Children, Wanted

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• The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Kings, Play, Actors

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets?

  Jim Bishop

  Patience, Two, Car

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• Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits.

  Graydon Carter

  Would Be, Deposits, Parlor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Taste, Obsession

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• What if I was the sexual equivalent of popcorn? Suitable for light snacking only?

  Rachel Vincent

  Light, What If, Popcorn

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “My Soul to Save”, p.193, Harlequin

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• Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

  Tinie Tempah

  Artist, Style, Nicknames

  "One last thing... Tinie Tempah". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

  Irving Stone

  Cows, Beastly, Fortune

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• ... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.

  George Eliot

  Furniture, World, Dinner

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.2255, Delphi Classics

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• Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising of a telephone box. It is not helpful for understanding what hit New York on September 11. Those people were not mindless and they were certainly not cowards. On the contrary, they had sufficiently effective minds braced with an insane courage, and it would pay us mightily to understand where that courage came from. It came from religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  New York, People, Leader

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• We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ambition, Greatness, Willpower

  Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

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• I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Book, Men

  Abraham Lincoln (1926). “An autobiography of Abraham Lincoln: consisting of the personal portions of his letters, speeches and conversations”

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• No one thinks anything silly is suitable when they are an adolescent. Such an enormous share of their own behavior is silly that they lose all proper perspective on silliness, like a baker who is nauseated by the sight of his own eclairs. This provides another good argument for the emerging theory that the best use of cryogenics is to freeze all human beings when they are between the ages of twelve and nineteen.

  Anna Quindlen

  Silly, Thinking, Sight

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• The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.

  William Howard Taft

  Army, Government, Navy

  William Howard Taft (2002). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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