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Quotes About Chiefly

Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The historical record is like the night sky: we see a few stars and group them together into mythic constellations. But what is chiefly visible is the darkness.
~ Roy Porter
The amount of sanctifying and special grace bestowed by a Sacrament depends chiefly on the disposition of the recipient.
~ Joseph Pohle
We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success-oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God. God wants us to walk in obedience—not
~ Josh Hunt
The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
~ Stephen Gardiner
Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.
~ Nelson A. Miles
All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.
~ H. L. Mencken
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
~ John Maynard Keynes
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
~ William Hazlitt