"Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another."
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"I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them."
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"Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public."
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"What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life."
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"A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion."
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"We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are."
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"Every man and woman who has talent and hides it will be called a slothful servant. Improve day by day upon the capital you have. In proportion as we are capacitated to receive, so it is our duty to do."
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"No issue is so small that it can't be blown out of proportion."
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"All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them."
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"So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb."
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"Insanity is a lack of proportion."
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"With fame, in just proportion, envy grows."
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"All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed."
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"There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!"
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"A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires."
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"I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself."
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"The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each"
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"I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work."
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"We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love."
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"Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished."
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