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Degrees Quotes (page 12)

Van Morrison quote: "She's as sweet as tupelo honey, she's an angel of the first..."
She's as sweet as tupelo honey, she's an angel of the first degree. Van Morrison
Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You can get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about. Thor Heyerdahl
Curiosity is, and has been from the creation of the world, a master passion. To awaken it, to gratify it by slight degrees, and yet leave something always in suspense, is to establish the surest hold that can be had, in wrong, on the unthinking portion of mankind. Charles Dickens
This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know. Leo Tolstoy
There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen by God is a transparent law, not a mass of facts. The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mary Wollstonecraft quote: "It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some..."
It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men. Mary Wollstonecraft
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained; and the restrainer or reason usurps its place & governs the unwilling. And being restrain'd it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the shadow of desire. William Blake
...this midlevel cultural-capital audience is not as far from the average white pop critic as we might have expected. We usually make middling incomes or worse, and while most have university degrees, our expertise is usually more self-taught than PhD-certified, a pattern believed would produce an anxious, fact-hoarding intellectual style in contrast with the relaxed mastery of a fully legitimated cultural elite. Carl Wilson
Charlotte Bronte quote: "stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they..."
...stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips. Charlotte Bronte
Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance. M. Russell Ballard
Bob Dylan quote: "We all like motorcycles to some degree."
We all like motorcycles to some degree. Bob Dylan
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension. Ezra Pound
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart. Jane Austen
JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree. Oscar Wilde
Carl Van Vechten quote: "Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops."
Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops. Carl Van Vechten

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