"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established."
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"God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him."
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"It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it."
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"The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned."
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"We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies."
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"You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful."
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"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
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"The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise."
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"What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?"
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"The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation."
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"We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?"
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"We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us."
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"I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality."
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"Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be"
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"A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best."
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"It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be."
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"You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'."
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"I am certainly an ought and not a must."
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"As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it."
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"We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen."
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