Deems Quotes
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The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied
edward jenks— Chapter I, Old English Law, p. 7
This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.
jack kevorkian— Quoted in "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"? - Page 16 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - 2006
Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so, whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after having given him so much as you propose.
Abraham Lincoln— In a letter, while US Congressman, to his friend and law-partner William H. Herndon, opposing the Mexican-American War (15 February 1848).
The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity when He deems itabsolutely necessary from His all encompassing point of view. For a single alteration in the planned and imprinted pattern in which each line and dot is interdependent, means a shaking up and a re-linking of an unending chain of possibilities and events.
meher baba— 63 : The Working of the Avatar, p. 107
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel’s face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.
lydia maria child— Source: Letters from New York, vol. 1, letter 39.
You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.
khalil gibran— Mary Magdalen (Thirty years later): On the Resurrection of the Spirit
She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of Time and Chance except, perhaps, fair play.
thomas hardy— Ch. 1. (The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886))
Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.
— Sophocles, Antigone, 707.
The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied
— Chapter I, Old English Law, p. 7 (A Short History Of The English Law (First Edition) (1912))
Humility, what is it? It is a gracious gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the same disposition which the Psalmist called a " broken heart," and that consciousness of need which Jesus had in view when He said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit." So far as it has respect to God, it is that docility which is willing to learn what God teaches; that conscious penury, which is willing to accept whatever God proffers; that submission which is willing to do what God desires, and to endure whatever God deems needful.
— James Hamilton, p. 331. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.
Nathaniel Hawthorne— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860), Volume II, Chapter XV.
Trade hardly deems the busy day begun Till his keen eye along the sheet has run; The blooming daughter throws her needle by, And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh; While the grave mother puts her glasses on, And gives a tear to some old crony gone. The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down To know what last new folly fills the town; Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things, The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings.
charles sprague— Charles Sprague, Curiosity. (Quotes)
