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#approbation

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #approbation




Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#approval #black-humor #disapproval #dishonesty #funny

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.


Asa Gray


#assent #charitable #could #expect #full

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.


Joan Collins


#actor #any #approbation #get #harder

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.


Leo Tolstoy


#approbation #between #chief #deeds #difference

The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son.


Joseph Ratzinger


#approbation #become #caused #completely #cross

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.


Samuel Richardson


#approve #dislike #find #good #hundred

We ask advice, but we mean approbation.


Charles Caleb Colton


#approbation #ask #mean

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.


Eli Whitney


#approbation #desire #itself #keep #must

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate.


Barbara Dana


#approbation #dog #dogs #horrible #love

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.


George Washington


#approbation #country #founded #good #honors






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