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Monday, July 1st, 2024
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13

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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Discretion'

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Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

John Selden, English Statesman (1584-1654)

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

Georg Simmel, German Sociologist (1858-1918)

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Philip Stanhope, British Statesman (1694-1773)

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Lytton Strachey, English Critic (1880-1932)

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian (1912-1989)

We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.

Evelyn Waugh, English Author (1903-1966)

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