Sole Quotations | Page 3

I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion

Anger and folly walk cheek by sole.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety / In Paradise of all things common else.

God so commanded, and left that command/ Sole daughter of his voice; the rest we live / Law to ourselves, our reason is our law.

People act as though our mission were to secure the triumph of truth, whereas our sole mission is fight for it. The wish to be victorious is so natural that when it clothes itself in the desire for the triumph of truth, the two are often confused, an

A woman can be proud and stiffWhen on love intent;But Love has pitched his mansion inThe place of excrement;For nothing can be sole or wholeThat has not been rent.

According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.

Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

The sole aim of journalism should be service.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India.

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.