The gray half-tones of daybreak are not the gray half-tones of the day’s close, though the degree of their shade may be the same. In the twilight of the morning, light seems active, darkness passive; in the twilight of evening it is the darkness which is active and crescent, and the light which is the drowsy reverse

Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched

When sailing if you miss a degree every day, eventually you’ll be going in the exact opposite direction.

One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.

It turned out that if you saw the same person with some degree of regularity, then the conversation was immediately pleasant and comfortable—you could pick up where you left off, as it were, rather than having to start afresh each time.

A college degree is not essential, but if you’re already in college, and if it’s at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and thus’ himself might deserve some decent degree of honors of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them

It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Each Life Converges to some Centre – Expressed by that Degree It touches the Divinity –

Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not gain all our experience at once, but by degrees; so our determinations continue to be assailed incessantly by fresh experience; and the mind, if we may use the expression, must always be under arms.

Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out.

I know my ABC’s yet you keep teaching me. I say, f*ck your degree, alphabet boy! You think you’re smarter than me with all your bad poetry? F*ck all your ABC’s, alphabet boy!

Every man is free to rise as far as he’s able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he’ll rise.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial

It is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow men.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.

The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.