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«If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.»
Author: Frederick Douglass (Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave) | Keywords: agitation, cropped, crops, deprecate, deprecates, deprecating, favor, favoring, ground, lightning, like thunder, plowed, plowing, plows, profess, professes, professing, rain, struggle, thunder, thundered, thundering
«It is not what they profess but what they practice that makes them good»
Author: Greek proverb | About: Action, Goodness | Keywords: profess, professes, professing
«Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.»
Author: Howard Nemerov | Keywords: contemplated, dominant, doubted, profess, professes, professing, professors, sincerity
«Live truth instead of professing it.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | Keywords: instead, professes, professing, truth
«Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.»
Author: Frederick Douglass (Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave) | About: Freedom, Mankind | Keywords: agitation, cropped, crops, depreciate, depreciates, favor, plowed, plowing, plows, profess, professes, professing
«America is destined to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs»
Author: John Adams (President) | About: America and Americans | Keywords: accustomed, customs, destined, One Nation, peopled, political system, political systems, professes, professing, social system, social systems, tenor, Tenors
«If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | About: Belief | Keywords: believers, professed, professes, professing, revealed, scripture, The sense, tolerate
«The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Excellence | Keywords: professes
«We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | Keywords: attainable, contemplate, dead soul, get rid of, profess, professes, professing, The Argument
«He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Hypocrisy | Keywords: approves, hypocrite, professes
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