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In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations - fear (Proportion Quotes)
Our ideas, like orange plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots (Proportion Quotes)
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size (Proportion Quotes)
The idea of putting old Browborough into prison for conduct which habit had made second nature to a large proportion of the House was distressing to Members of Parliament generally (Proportion Quotes)
We are unattractive know - all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families (Proportion Quotes)
Sticklers unite, you have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion, and arguably you didn't have a lot of that to begin with (Proportion Quotes)
How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives (Proportion Quotes)
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve (Proportion Quotes)
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor saving machinery it employs (Proportion Quotes)
I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance (Proportion Quotes)
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt (Proportion Quotes)
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone (Proportion Quotes)
Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun (Proportion Quotes)
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven (Proportion Quotes)
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh (Proportion Quotes)
The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre observe degree, priority, and place, insisture, course, proportion, season, form, office, and custom, in all line of order (Proportion Quotes)
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain (Proportion Quotes)
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy (Proportion Quotes)
The seeing of things as they really are-the seeing of a proportion veiled from other eyes (together with the power of expression), is what makes a man an artist. What makes him a great artist is a high fervour of spirit, which produces a superlative, instead of a comparative, clarity of vision (Proportion Quotes)
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity (Proportion Quotes)
Heaven always bears some proportion to Earth. The God of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant (Proportion Quotes)
A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of it's source is the force of it's projection (Proportion Quotes)
Most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually (Proportion Quotes)
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of it's brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion (Proportion Quotes)
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body (Proportion Quotes)
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous (Proportion Quotes)
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others (Proportion Quotes)
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves (Proportion Quotes)
He must be little skilled in the world who thinks that men's talking much or little shall hold proportion only to their knowledge (Proportion Quotes)
Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbors (Proportion Quotes)