Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.


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In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Never complain and never explain.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous Pe...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
Every child senses, with all the horse sense that's in him, that any parent is angry inside when chi...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for somethin...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to th...
BENJAMIN SPOCK
To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation
BENJAMIN SPOCK