#persons

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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.


Walter Pater


#alike #even #eye #failure #form

No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.


Isabel Paterson


#give #government #law #persons #power

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.


John James Audubon


#deepest #forests #frequently #i #me

There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.


Charles Babbage


#admitted #ambition #another #becomes #consist

It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.


Mortimer Adler


#also #give #impulse #involved #love

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.


Bhumibol Adulyadej


#another #elicit #good #good person #goodness

In such a case secrecy must be absolute to be effective, and although mere vague curiosity induced many persons of my intimate acquaintance to ask to be allowed to just go in and have a peep, I never admitted anyone.


Henry Bessemer


#acquaintance #admitted #allowed #although #anyone

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.


Frederick Douglass


#class #conspiracy #degrade #denied #enforced

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.


Nellie Bly


#been #before #faintest #had #i

And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there is no black object in sight without them.


Robert Boyle


#awake #black #confidence #distracted #fiends