A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
Mahatma Gandhi
But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.
Pierre Laval
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
Edmund Waller
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
David Brainerd
From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.
Jimmy Connors
I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.
Michael Tippett
It's about somebody initially knowing more about it than you do but eventually you learn a lot about it yourself and practise the skills and techniques that you've been taught.
Lynn Davies
Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions?
Thomas Hooker
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
Walter Scott
Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
E. M. Forster
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams
South Africa was to evolve into the most pernicious example of the criminal practise of colonial and white minority domination.
Thabo Mbeki
The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.
Greg Rusedski
They only babble who practise not reflection.
Edward Young
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
Mary Astell
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
Johannes Tauler
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