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Personality is lower than partiality. -- Goldwin Smith
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Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good. -- Herman Wouk
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives. -- Ron Chernow
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. -- Goldwin Smith
Partiality, in the sense that objectors commonly use the word, is impossible in the sphere of grace. It can exist only in the sphere of justice, where the persons concerned have certain claims and rights. -- Loraine Boettner
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God. -- Goldwin Smith
A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality. -- Solon
Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them. -- James Russell Lowell
The haiku reproduces the designating gesture of the child pointing at whatever it is (the haiku shows no partiality for the subject), merely saying: that! -- Roland Barthes
When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity. -- Confucius
My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote. -- James Boswell
A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness. -- Epicurus
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness. -- William James
The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity. -- Pope Leo XIII
How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive. -- Margaret Fuller
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble. -- Bob Marley
If you have any lack, if you are prey to poverty or disease, it is because you do not believe or do not understand the power that is yours. It is not a question of the universal giving to you. It offers everything to everyone - there is no partiality. -- Robert Collier
A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power. -- John Adams
When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it. -- Jean de la Bruyere
The general feeling is, if you don't treat everyone the same you're showing partiality. To me, that's when you show the most partiality, when you treat everyone the same. You must give each individual the treatment that you feel he earns and deserves, recognizing at all times that you're imperfect and you're going to be incorrect oftentimes in your judgment. -- John Wooden
It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty. -- Thomas Jefferson
It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no. -- Marquis de Sade
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected. -- Benjamin Robbins Curtis
The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality. -- Allen West
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section. -- Robert Toombs
Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The sun and moon shine on all without partiality. -- Confucius
How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust! -- Henry Clay
The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just. -- Henry David Thoreau
Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt. -- Charles Caleb Colton
No young woman of good breeding should show exclusive partiality to one partner all night. -- Jude Morgan
Time, so complain'd of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm'd hours. -- Matthew Arnold
In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man. -- Laozi
We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods. -- Wendell Berry
But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge. -- Jane Austen
Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind? -- Sir Fulke Greville

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