37 Chiefly Quotes for You to Enjoy

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates

Life Good Good Life Valued Chiefly

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. Petrarch

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. William Ellery Channing

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length. Carl Friedrich Gauss

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Aristotle

Art Other Telling Telling Lies Lies Poets Chiefly Taught Who Homer

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all. Saint Ambrose

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time. Charles Lamb

Time Good Give Because Chiefly Us Riches

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. Miguel de Cervantes

Our Foes Must Combat Within Greatest Chiefly Whom

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life. Alice Morse Earle

Life Health Science Christian Medicine Astrology Asunder Some Crops Only Had Occult Still Governed His Trusting Chiefly Influences Which Century Cut Planetary Wholly Believed

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. Arnold Bennett

Happiness Life Be Happy Happy Challenge Satisfied Possibly Paramount Some Take No-One He Failed Idea Feels Affairs Up Chiefly Effort After Full Who Satisfaction Honest

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel. Charles Churchill

Great Crime Danger Daring Lies Excel Well Chiefly Acting

Mr. Trump has been consistent in some areas. Since the late 1980s, he has nurtured a set of preoccupations, chiefly that America's allies - Japan and Saudi Arabia among them - are ripping America off. David E. Sanger

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. John Moody

History Property Financial Control Changes Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Since Baltimore Close Chiefly Ohio Interesting Century Connection

He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods. Kate Chopin

Matter Rare Painting Pleasure Possessions Valued Had He Bought Contemplating Household Because Genuine Were His Greatly Chiefly Gods Lace After Curtain Placed Derived Among

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Women Burden Men Perfect Veracity Surely Been Falls Falsehood Chiefly Than Conventional Them Less Reasons Why Credited

It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects. Lakeith Stanfield

Work Great Me People Care Doors Meeting Meetings Projects Secure Constant About Great People Could Inspired Feel Opened Auditions Were Been Lot Chiefly Trying Done Tireless Grinding Fortunate Who Cool Bring

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. Lascelles Abercrombie

Tired Remember Matter Easier Must Would Would-Be Poetry Since New Hours Glorified Traditional Familiar Chiefly Than Unexpected Listen Quite Listeners Stories Things Needed

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