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Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum —My care and study is what is true and becoming, and in this I am wholly absorbed.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
Prudence or Forethought has commonly been reckoned a virtue: and all modern lists of Virtues have included Rational Benevolence, which aims at the happiness of other human beings generally, and therefore necessarily takes into consideration even remote effects of actions.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
C. Footnote 1: that return to footnote mark Contents No. 16 Monday, March 19, 1711 Addison Quid verum atque decens curo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
Its symptoms are innumerable and inconstant, and its progress and effects singularly irregular, for scarcely have any two persons complaints exactly resembling each other; and where there have been, some conformity in the symptoms, the order of their appearance has been totally different.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr
Its symptoms are inconstant and innumerable, and its progress and effects extremely irregular; for scarcely any two persons have complaints exactly resembling each other, and where there hath been found some conformity in the symptoms, the order of their appearance has been totally different.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron
Probably no cold even rendered entire obedience to any adult who did not himself hold his own wishes in subjection.
— from Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne
The lovers had been constantly exercising, respecting each other, their faculty of idealization.
— from Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Savage, William T., Mrs.
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— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, July 1849 by Various
The Targum, “donec veniat Messias, cujus est regnum, et obedient populi.”
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman
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