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To the young I should offer two maxims: Don’t accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo. (Maxims Quotes)
You cannot gauge the intelligence of an American by talking with him; you must work with him. The American polishes and refines his way of doing things-even the most commonplace-the way the French of the 17th century polished their maxims (Maxims Quotes)
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive virtue on the part of investment institutions to concentrate their resources upon the holding of ‘liquid’ securities. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole. (Maxims Quotes)
The mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy (Maxims Quotes)
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes (Maxims Quotes)
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences (Maxims Quotes)
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations (Maxims Quotes)
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find (Maxims Quotes)
The evident justice and utility of the foregoing maxims have recommended them more or less to the attention of all nations (Maxims Quotes)
Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected (Maxims Quotes)
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books (Maxims Quotes)
The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same (Maxims Quotes)
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions (Maxims Quotes)
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking anecdote, of sound maxims and truthful apothegms. It will impress on your own mind a thousand valuable suggestions, and teach your children a thousand lessons of truth and duty. Such a book is a casket of jewels for your housebold (Maxims Quotes)
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life (Maxims Quotes)
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word (Maxims Quotes)
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct (Maxims Quotes)
History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution (Maxims Quotes)
Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom good maxims have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in (Maxims Quotes)
To the young I should offer two maxims: Don’t accept superficial solutions of difficult problems. It is better to do a little good than much harm. I should not offer anything more specific; every young person should decide on his or her own credo (Maxims Quotes)
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation (Maxims Quotes)
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world (Maxims Quotes)
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better (Maxims Quotes)
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find (Maxims Quotes)
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods (Maxims Quotes)
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