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«Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.»
«Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children.»
«Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.»
«Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.»
«Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt»
«Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.»
«Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.»
«Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Marriage | Keywords: in proportion to, unfit
«Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.»
«Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain»

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