Sam Houston

We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.

American Politician

Prince Charles

Women are not automatically second-class citizens because they live in Islamic countries. We cannot judge the position of women in Islam aright if we take the most conservative Islamic states as representative of the whole.

English Royalty

Angelina Grimke

I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.

American Activist

Henry David Thoreau

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

American Author

Thomas Traherne

You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.

British Clergyman

Blaise Pascal

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

French Philosopher

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

German Writer

The term is considered old-fashioned and is seldom used in modern English conversations or writing.

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'Aright' may appear in literature or poetry to evoke a bygone era or to lend a classic tone.

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Be careful not to confuse 'aright' with 'a right' which has a different meaning referring to an entitlement.

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