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"As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers."
"The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds."
"Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself."
"I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree."
"Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life."
"It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability."
"The fact that seasoned politicians can say such ridiculous things - and get away with it - illustrates the degree to which the new dogma... has swept through the left-of-centre governing classes."
"I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women."
"By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or to thought.... This object of pure sense or pure thought, with no belief superadded, an object inwardly complete and individual, but without external relations or physical status, is what I call an essence."
"The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness."
"Many women tend toward the interdependent end of things, we tend to see ourselves in relationship to others to a far greater degree than men."
"There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party."
"They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has."
"If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it"
"I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness."
"But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach"."
"Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?"
"The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit."
"I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment."
"Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her."
