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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Quote by Charles Babbage about genius, knowledge, country, good, good luck

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about nation, earth, wisdom, god

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about help, things, time, life

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is...

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Quote by Francis Bacon about life

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural...

Quote by Ansel Adams about opinion, miracle, help, beauty, nature, world

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Quote by John Adams about liberty, rightness, real estate

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have...

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about idea, contentment, life

But surely for everything you have to love you have to...

But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price.

Quote by Agatha Christie about pasion, contentment, love

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic...

Quote by Hans Eysenck about end, failure

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as...

I have always conceived of the construction of Europe as a movement which permits slowly and surely an upwards social and economic harmonisation.

Quote by Laurent Fabius

And if you're a journalist, surely the thing that you...

And if you're a journalist, surely the thing that you should be writing is the truth, or at least checking your facts.

Quote by Elton John about journalism, writing, truth, things, contentment

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

Quote by George Oppen about poetry, things, world

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

Quote by Thomas Paine

If my body were a tree trunk, the inner rings would...

If my body were a tree trunk, the inner rings would surely begin to reveal the time it has had to mature.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about age, body, time

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these...

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

Quote by Radclyffe Hall about language, emotions, body, mind, spirit

If you've done a list of all your enemies, surely you...

If you've done a list of all your enemies, surely you have missed the most important one: yourself.

GQuote by Gavriil Stiharul about enemies, contentment

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