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• We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love" ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  God, Father, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 270), 1895.

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• To discover he is loved in return ought really to disenchant the lover with the beloved.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Return, Lovers

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• We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Answers, Minutes

  Spurgeon, Charles, Delmarva Publication, Inc. (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 78”, p.96, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

  Pope Gregory I

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Men

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• Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.

  Evan Esar

  Mouths, Speech, Congress

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• It is abundantly evident that, however natural it may be for us to feel sorrow at the death of our relatives, that sorrow is an error and an evil, and we ought to overcome it. There is no need to sorrow for them, for they have passed into a far wider and happier life. If we sorrow for our own fancied separation from them, we are in the first place weeping over an illusion, for in truth they are not separated from us; and secondly, we are acting selfishly, because we are thinking more of our own apparent loss than of their great and real gain.

  Charles Webster Leadbeater

  Death, Real, Loss

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• Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Calumny, Secure

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.154

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• One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Loneliness, Solitude, Wish

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• Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Plato, Asking, Speech

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.5, Psychology Press

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• One of the duties of old-age, is the management of time. The less that remains to us, the more valuable we ought to consider it.

  Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles

  Age, Duty, Valuable

  "Essays on Friendship and Old-Age". Book by Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, translated by Eliza Ball Hayley, p. 121, 1780.

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• True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Leadership, Art, Nations

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• George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.

  E. C. Bentley

  Wonder, Grotesque, Blunders

  'More Biography' (1929) 'George the Third'

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• We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Thinking, Hands, Law

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• We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.

  Sir John Richard Hicks

  Men, Income, Week

  1946 Value and Capital (2nd edn).

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• Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Jealousy, Ridiculous, Tragic

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.160

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• From religion ... they will learn the only true lesson of equality - the conviction that our destinies are not in our own hands; they will see that no situation in life is without its share of suffering; - and this perpetual reference to a higher power ought equally to teach the rich humility, and the poor devotion.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Humility, Destiny, Situations In Life

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• God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.

  Francois Fenelon

  Wise, Time, Two

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• It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Grace, Mind

  John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.287, Baker Books

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• Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

  Edward Bouverie Pusey

  Littles, Deceiving, Neglect

  Edward Bouverie Pusey (1883). “Maxims and gleanings from the writings of E.B. Pusey, selected by C.M.S.”

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• a church ought to express the joy of religion as well as its majesty.

  Barbara Mertz

  Joy, Church, Majesty

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• We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.

  Richard A. Clarke

  Country, Thinking, Internet

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• We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If it could be satisfactorily shown that they esteemed it authorized and transmitted forever, that does not settle the question for us. We know how inveterately they were attached to their Jewish prejudices, and how often even the influence of Christ failed to enlarge their views. On every other subject succeeding times have learned to form a judgement more in accordance with the spirit of Christianity than was the practice of the early ages.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Views, Practice, Forever

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.105, Modern Library

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• Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but
  eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.

  Epictetus

  Entertainment, Philosopher, Remember

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.

  Norman Mailer

  Philosophy, Clock, Exception

  NORMAN MAILER (1955). “THE DEER PARK”

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, Fire

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