#allied

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive

The carrying out of the Potsdam Agreement has, however, been obstructed by the failure of the Allied Control Council to take the necessary steps to enable the German economy to function as an economic unit. ↗

— James F. Byrnes

#allied #been #carrying #control #council

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide. ↗

— John Dryden

#bounds #divide #great #madness #near

There is fear as to whether Japan, reduced to such a predicament, could ever manage to pay reparations to certain designated Allied Powers without shifting the burden upon the other Allied Powers. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#burden #certain #could #designated #ever

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#behavior #courtesy #heart #love #outward

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#eradicating #excellence #faults #nearly #out

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#already #anything #aware #excited #farther

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#anything #arts #being #belief #devotes

There is much to be said for having an experienced international jurist who is entirely unconnected with the allied invaders, on the tribunal. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#entirely #experienced #having #international #invaders

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it. ↗

— William R. Alger

#appreciate #closely #correctly #created #exercise