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  • Bill Hybels Sensing the carelessness and one-sidedness of our prayers, we start to feel guilty about praying. Guilt leads to faint-heartedness and that in turn leads to prayerlessness.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Alberto Giacometti All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Amy Carmichael Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
    Amy Carmichael
    Missionary in India (1867 - 1951)
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  • Bhagavad Gita But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • William Shakespeare Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Faint heart never won fair lady.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Charles Lamb For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Robert Burns Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met - or never parted - we had never been broken-hearted.
    Robert Burns
    Scottish Poet (1759 - 1796)
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  • Michael Crichton I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine]
    Michael Crichton
    American author of science fiction books and film screenplays (1942 - 2008)
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  • Beny Steinmetz It's hard for me to characterise myself. I think I'm balanced. Some people might say I'm cold-hearted.
    Beny Steinmetz
    Israeli businessman
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Lao-Tzu Nature is not human hearted.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Berton Braley The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
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  • Nadine Gordimer The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • William Wordsworth The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Raymond Chandler The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Marian Anderson The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
    Marian Anderson
    African-American contralto and one (1897 - 1993)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs of his neighbor.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Ruskin They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Abdul Kalam Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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