Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others
Oliver Goldsmith
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others.
ALEXANDER POPE Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
PASQUIER QUESNEL Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Olive...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Pride is the problem. Everyone wants to be right so badly they overlook the "rights" of others.
CARLOS WALLACE To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untou...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Blind zeal can only do harm.
MAGNUS GOTTFRIED LICHTWER Blind zeal can only do harm
GERMAN PROVERB Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She shows the worst qualities of masochists. She is boastful, she tramples upon the rights of others...
CAROL ARAULLO When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
CONFUCIUS The Mohawks have on all occasions shown their zeal and loyalty to the Great King; yet they have been...
JOSEPH BRANT As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and divine...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Blind zeal can only do harm.
[Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]
MAGNUS GOTTFRIED LICHTWER Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be nex...
DASHANNE STOKES Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just thi...
LAWRENCE LESSIG I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being...
JOE DUNTHORNE Human life is not for suffering criticism. If it is the truth and there is no nagging or insistence ...
DADA BHAGWAN The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo ...
A.S. PETERSON I am often drawn to what appear at first to be 'dark' or 'difficult' subjects, but w...
MARYA HORNBACHER Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own r...
JOHN WOODEN Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of
others.
SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE When it comes to reforming the way our skies are regulated, we must be certain that as we work to so...
MIKE POMPEO I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement.
LEE SIEGEL When you have the regulators working with the regulated, it doesn't pass the smell test.
JOHN TRUSCOTT The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
CHIEF JOSEPH It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL A good heart will be happy for everyone. But most of the time, a good heart gets hurt very badly bec...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Gary just 'Be.' Be yourself. Be you as if you were that goldsmith.
ERIC LOVE When the blind lead the blind the world is full of casualties.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO What's particularly interesting is that, while some of the new human rights courses focus narrowly o...
KATE ALLEN Though, democracy being the rights of the people being built upon the people and for the people, it ...
ABDUL DIAZ As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will...
ANDREW JACKSON There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish and others like them are wro...
WARREN EARL BURGER My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience d...
JUSTIN TRUDEAU Those who fight to defend their own rights under the Constitution do not fully understand it or appr...
E.R. ROCK Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
BUDDHA Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
BUDDHA It didn't used to work very well because it was so heavily regulated by the government.
BRIAN CARR Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Almost a year ago, in August, Oliver was in front but Jens has played very well these last few month...
JURGEN KLINSMANN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroa...
JAMES K. POLK One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroa...
JAMES POLK If one benefits tangibly from the exploitation of others who are weak, is one morally implicated in ...
WILLIAM GREIDER We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zea...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKIN...
JOHN MILTON The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegrati...
, ON BEING ELECTED CHAPLAIN OF THE U. S. SENATE IN JANUARY 1947 Desperation is not a function of zeal or enthusiasm but a product of despair.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I can not think for others or without others,nor can others think for me. Even if the people's think...
PAULO FREIRE In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thin...
IMMANUEL KANT Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
WILLIAM BLAKE Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
JANICE MARKOWITZ Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.”
ASHISH KUMAR When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that'...
ROSEMARY MAHONEY Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convinc...
JUNIUS Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the e...
THOMAS JEFFERSON In the name of the rule of law, democracy and human rights, we cannot accept that the rights of indi...
TARIQ RAMADAN Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto t...
BIBLE It is frustrating when other road-users are driving badly but reacting aggressively and driving badl...
EMMA HOLYER Tackles happen very fast with Oliver Hoyte back behind me.
MANNY LAWSON If you don't stand up for others when their rights are being trampled, who will stand up for you whe...
UNKNOWN Respect for the rights of others means peace.
BENITO JUAREZ Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
IAN MCHARG Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
IAN MCHARG Forgiveness is the subjective and fertile ground the acorn falls upon when gifted to ourselves and o...
GILLIAN DUCE There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others lik...
WARREN E. BURGER I stumbled upon something and someone so magnificent I was truly blind to it.
DOMINIC RICCITELLO You are the most beautiful creature on this earth.", said the blind husband to his wife.
PARUL AGRAWAL Love isn't blind, but love makes people blind.
JEANBULATAO Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal right...
ANGELINA GRIMKE Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but wh...
BIBLE If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
ISAAC NEWTON I am Happy and satisfied with what I am.
10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. -Oliver Wende...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Wherever people feel safe (...) they will be indifferent.
SUSAN SONTAG With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
KHALIL GIBRAN Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
KAHLIL GIBRAN The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHER The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others
HENRY WARD BEECHER Thought
Of equality- as if it harm'd me,
giving others the same chances
and rights a...
WALT WHITMAN Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the e...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Of course, Oliver is disappointed, but he took it as a real sportsman.
JUERGEN KLINSMANN We have built upon the 'all rights reserved' concept of traditional copyright to offer a voluntary '...
LAWRENCE LESSIG Ambition - The journey of a thousand miles sometimes ends very, very badly.
LARRY KERSTEN How terrible it is to recognize that one’s brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of ot...
SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER I think (Travel Channel) knows it's not getting Jamie Oliver or Rachel Ray when they throw their lot...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense o...
JIMMY CARTER Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY [Re: Rom 10:2] It is commonly said: “The intention is good, and the purpose is true, but the means...
MARTIN LUTHER A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB Dallas Principle #4: Religious beliefs are not a basis upon which to affirm or deny civil rights. ww...
THE DALLAS PRINCIPLES Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or...
THOMAS JEFFERSON IT workers at some companies have learned that blind people can compete. But lots of others have nev...
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The day's disasters in his morning face.
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[Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
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Lament for Madame Blaize,
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...
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And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden
shoes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather t...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants a...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her l...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm;
The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Let observation with observant view,
Observe mankind from China to Peru.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine
OLIVER GOLDSMITH They say women and music should never be dated
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The very pink of perfection.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, dif...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH You may all go to pot.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more s...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Still to ourselves in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH This is Liberty-Hall, gentlemen.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them
OLIVER GOLDSMITH