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Letter "J" » justly
«Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.»
Author: Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Priest)
| About:
Judgement,
Justice,
Kindness,
Weakness
| Keywords:
allowances, defects, justly, recognizing, weaknesses
«Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.»
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
| Keywords:
commended, commends, diseases, efficient, electric, electric light, industrial, justly, policeman, publicity, social disease, sunlight
«It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.»
«Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.»
«MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjective, adjectives, Bedlam, Bethlehem, Bethlehem To, boast, Britain, government officials, government of the United, government of the United States, Great Britain, inhabitant, justly, Luke, Mary, maudlin, mentioned, official, penitent, popularly, pronounced, sanction, sentimental, St Luke, The Authority, unpleasantly, whence
«LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
antique, antiques, artistic, brute, diligence, folds, illustration, illustrations, inertia, justly, Laocoon, piece of work, representing, scripture, serpents, that name, The old man
«Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
censor, censors, forbidden, justly, Satires
«Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.»
«How various his employments, whom the world / Calls idle; and who justly, in return, / Esteems that busy world an idler too!»
«Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| About:
Modesty
| Keywords:
confession, indicates, justly, overvalue, overvalued, undervalue, undervalued, undervalues, undervaluing
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