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• Be very vigilant over thy child in the April of his understanding, lest the frost of May nip his blossoms. While he is a tender twig, straighten him; whilst he is a new vessel, season him; such as thou makest him, such commonly shall thou find him. Let his first lesson be obedience and his second shall be what thou wilt.

  Francis Quarles

  Children, Understanding, Frost

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• Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.

  Sean O'Casey

  Christian, Knights, Order

  Sean O'Casey (1975). “The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1955-58”, Catholic University of Amer Press

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• Without fear of contradiction, I can safely say that every step in progress that woman has made she has been assailed by ecclesiastics, that her most vigilant unwearied opponents have always been the clergy.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Religion, Progress, Opponents

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• It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  True Friend, Sacrifice, Rights

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• Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.

  J. D. Salinger

  Stars, Giving, Stories

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• To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

  Robert Byrd

  Speaks Out, People, Liberty

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• I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Greatness, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1856). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.3

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• We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future.

  Charlie Dent

  Religious, Inhumanity To Man, Holocaust

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• About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.

  Jeremy Stoppelman

  Technology, Years, Two

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• I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn't vigilant. I didn't eat. I didn't go out. I didn't want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.

  Jojo Moyes

  World, Want, Might

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• I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S., 630". Dissenting opinion, November 10, 1919.

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• Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Responsibility, Government, Demand

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• I'd like to hope you end up a miserable, lonely woman. But actually, I hope you have children one day, Ellie Haworth. Then you'll know how it feels to be vulnerable. And to have to fight, to be constantly vigilant, just to make sure your children get to grow up with a father.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Lonely, Children, Growing Up

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• The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we put a sound regulatory framework in place and if policymakers remain vigilant.

  Christina Romer

  Running, Long, Goal

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• My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me about moderation... I've trained myself to be super-vigilant... because I feel better when I am in control.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Feel Better, Discipline, Taught

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• Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact.

  David A. Bednar

  Children, Opportunity, Impact

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• Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Safety, Quiet

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.22

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• I see murky visions of other gods and rival magic." That REALLY didn't sound good. "What do you mean?" I asked. "what OTHER GODS?" "I don't know, Sadie. But Egypt has always faced challenges from outside –– magicians from elsewhere, even gods from elsewhere. Just be vigilant." ~Ruby & Sadie Kane about...? Possibly Greeks?

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Egypt, Challenges

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• We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Congress's legislative time.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Welfare Programs, Long

  Speech in the House of Representatives, September 17, 1997.

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• Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Said, Blindness

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.7813, Delphi Classics

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• Anti-democracy...is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom.

  Harry Belafonte

  Freedom, Thinking, Issues

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• Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Nature, Animal, Giving

  Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

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• The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Land, Railroads, Underground Railroad

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.61, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational Life, Support You, Goal

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• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  Vanna Bonta

  Dream, Stars, Ocean

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