#province

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#listen #privilege #province #speak #wisdom

We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise. ↗

— Alex Campbell

#appreciate #been #beginning #blessing #disguise

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#altered #best #compact #confederation #consideration

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. ↗

— John Lilly

#becomes #believes #either #mind #province

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love. ↗

— Herman Melville

#love #march #may #mind #provinces

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination. ↗

— James Monroe

#any #between #civil #civil war #continues

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#criticism #exceeds #feel #give #much

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#extraordinary #extraordinary thing #grew #happened #i

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job. ↗

— David Petraeus

#ago #any #battalion #battle #conducted

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#broken #confined #his #mouth #own