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  • Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

    Beautiful   Sex   Loss  
    Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100
  • Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.

  • Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

    Buddhist   Doors   Mind  
  • Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found, it must be guarded. Never must we confound it with pleasure. Nor think sorrow its exact opposite.

    Mary Lavin (1981). “Selected stories”, Viking Pr
  • I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

    Sea   Sky   Perfect  
    Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.147, Macmillan
  • Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?

    Marie Anne de Bovet, Charles Gounod (1891). “Charles Gounod: His Life and His Works”
  • The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.

    War   Men   Race  
    Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland
  • There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.

  • Dress has never been at all a straightforward business: so much subterranean interest and complex feeling attaches to it. As a topic ... it has a flowery head but deep roots in the passion. On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do. ... Ten minutes talk about clothes (except between perfect friends) tends to make everyone present either overbearing, guarded or touchy.

    Passion   Roots   Clothes  
  • Wit is the most dangerous talent you can possess. It must be guarded with great discretion and good-nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies.

    Mrs. Chapone (Hester), John Gregory, Lady Sarah Pennington (1827). “Letters on the improvement of the mind: addressed to a lady, by Mrs. Chapone. A father's legacy to his daughters, by Dr. Gregory. A mother's advice to her absent daughters, with an additional letter, on the management and education of infant children, by Lady Pennington”, p.166
  • Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes.

    Men   Jewels   Profound  
    "Sacerdotalis Caelibatus". Encyclical of Pope Paul VI, w2.vatican.va. June 24, 1967.
  • In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its fruits; that industry from which property results, and that enjoyment which consists not merely in its immediate use, but in its posthumous destination to objects of choice, and of kindred affection. In a just and free government, therefore, the rights both of property and of persons ought to be effectually guarded.

    Freedom   Law   Rights  
    "Selections from the Private Correspondence of James Madison, from 1813 to 1836".
  • When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

    "Oprah, Kitty and Me" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.
  • I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.

  • A dog will make eye contact. A cat will, too, but a cat's eyes don't even look entirely warm-blooded to me, whereas a dog's eyes look human except less guarded. A dog will look at you as if to say, "What do you want me to do for you? I'll do anything for you." Whether a dog can in fact, do anything for you if you don't have sheep (I never have) is another matter. The dog is willing.

    Dog   Cat   Eye  
    "Now, Where Were We?". Book by Roy Blount Jr., 1988.
  • Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

  • In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret.

    Men   Data   Secret  
    C.S. Friedman (1999). “This Alien Shore”, p.11, Penguin
  • Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

    Wall   Son   Gun  
  • Whether it's her [ Hillary Clinton] guarded privacy or whatever else, I mean, there has got to be some sense that this is a human being that I can identify.

    Mean   Privacy   Clinton  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

    Dream   Evil   Quitting  
  • An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.

    Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works”, p.393
  • The press box at Wrigley Field in Chicago is an extended narrow shed, two rows deep, that is precariously bolted to the iron rafters just underneath the park's second deck. To gain access, one must climb a steeply angled ramp and clamber down a little starboard companionway, guarded at its foot by a uniformed minion and then proceed giddily along a catwalk that hangs directly above the tiered, circling rows of seats and spectators behind home plate.

    Home   Feet   Two  
    Roger Angell (2013). “Season Ticket”, p.266, Open Road Media
  • The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear.

    "What is the Jew?" by Leo Tolstoy, 1908.
  • Certainty is the enemy of mankind. If you're certain about everything, you have the Inquisition, you have Nazis and you have - that certainty is something to be guarded about.

    Enemy   Nazi   Certain  
    "Actor Sir Anthony Hopkins". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. January 27, 2011.
  • We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

  • Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

  • Marriage is an institution very safely guarded.

  • We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

    Heart   Doors   Religion  
  • I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was while I was this that doubt struck me, and while I was in the guarded circle of the home, with no dream of outside work or outside liberty, that I lost all faith in Christianity.

    Mother   Dream   Home  
    Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”
  • This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

    Strong   War   Army  
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