Then I hate to see fellows who pay least taxes, complaining most of the burden--those who most lament the hardness of the times, spending money in needless extravagance, and luxury increasing in exact proportion as means diminish.
The felicity of the connection has been in exact proportion to the purity of the motive.
It is not always possible to raise the price of a commodity in exact proportion to every additional imposition laid upon it.
The excitement thus caused is invariably followed by a diminution of nervous power, in exact proportion to the preceding excitement to expel the evil from the system.
This answers the same purpose fur the joints as oil in making machinery work smoothly, while the supply is constant and always in exact proportion to the demand.
Ammonia, too, which is so important that it is usual in England to estimate the value of manure in exact proportion to its supply of this element, is largely yielded by human excrement.
But let both persevere and at the end of five, ten, or twenty years it will be found that they succeeded almost in exact proportion to their skill and industry.
If you put your arm in a sling and do not use it, Nature will remove the muscle almost to the bone, and the arm will become useless, but in exact proportion to your efforts to use it again she will gradually restore what she took away.
Every repetition of an act makes us more likely to perform that act, and discovers in our wonderful mechanism a tendency to perpetual repetition, whose facility increases in exact proportion to the repetition.
Whatever we long for, yearn for, struggle for, and hold persistently in the mind, we tend to become just in exact proportion to the intensity and persistence of the thought.
The pike (Lupus Tiberinus) was esteemed in exact proportion to the distance it was caught from the common sewers of Rome.
Every act of moral turpitude incurs more glaring reprobation in exact proportion to the rank of him that commits it.
In exact proportion to the sum of money a man keeps in his chest, is the credit given to his oath.
Especially is this true of religious teachers and reformers, and generally in exact proportion to the intensity of their fervour.
It is a view profoundly abstract, and, at bottom, determinist: the will follows the intellect necessarily, in exact proportion to the clearness of information of the former.
The colour of flowers is therefore in exact proportion to the amount of light which they receive.
On the other hand, it is, I think, equally certain that man necessarily becomes a social being in exact proportion to the development of the capacities of his nature.
In exact proportion as we believe a desire for personal enjoyment to be the motive of a good act is the merit of the agent diminished.
Their want of consistency and moderation has been in exact proportion to their want of candour and comprehensiveness of mind.
The love of power or action is another independent principle of the human mind, in the different degrees in which it exists, and which are not by any means in exact proportion to its physical sensibility.
I will now assume that the end of education is to produce, or at any rate contribute to the production of, good men and women; and that the education given in elementary schools is useful in exact proportion as it serves this end.
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