The object of the politician is expediency, 20 and his duty is to adapt his measures to the often crude, undeveloped, and vacillating conception of the nation. The object, on the other hand, of the philosopher is truth, and his duty is to push every principle which he believes to be true to its legitimate consequences, regardless of the results that may follow. H. Lecky.
The object of true religion should be to impress the principles of morality deeply in the soul. Leibnitz.
The obligation of veracity may be made out from the direct ill consequences of lying to social happiness. Paley.
The obscure is what transcends us, and what imposes itself upon us by transcending us. Renan.
The ocean beats against the stern dumb shore, / The stormy passion of its mighty heart. L. C. Moulton.
The ocean may have bounds. Hitopadesa. 25
The offender never pardons. George Herbert.
The old fox is caught at last. Pr.
The old gloomy cathedrals were good, but the great blue dome that hangs over all is better than any Cologne one. Carlyle.
The old never dies till this happen, till all the soul of good that was in it get itself transfused into the practical new. Carlyle.