Absolute freedom is inhuman. [ Rahel ]
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. [ Ruskin ]
Absolute individualism is an absurdity. [ Amiel ]
It is clemency that makes the absolute conquest. [ Proverb ]
How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! [ Longfellow ]
Absolute fiends are as rare as angels, perhaps rarer. [ J. S. Mill ]
God may, by almighty grace, hinder the absolute completion of sin in final obduracy. [ South ]
Greater completion marks the progress of art, absolute completion usually its decline. [ Ruskin ]
Casuists who made absolute chastity a virtue, have produced but false appearances in a hypocritical society. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
The problem of philosophy is, for all that exists conditionally, to find a ground unconditioned and absolute. [ Plato ]
God alone is entirely exempt from all want: of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine. [ Plutarch ]
Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling. [ Draper ]
Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival. [ Montaigne ]
Truth is one, forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the dispositions of the spectator. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Evil is merely privative, not absolute; it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. [ Barton ]
Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair. [ Fielding ]
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader. [ Washington Irving ]
Sir Anthony Absolute, two or three years before Evelina appeared, spoke the sense of the great body of sober fathers and husbands when he pronounced the circulating library an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Macaulay ]
The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour - never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other. [ Sismondi ]
Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. [ Bacon ]
There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover. [ Shenstone ]
How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending, - the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]