Quotes 21 till 40 of 40.
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Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, ''I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.''
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Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
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The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
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The whole history of Christianity proves that she has indeed little to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as an ally.
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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies? Nay, who but infants question in such wise, 'twas one of my most intimate enemies.
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
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We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the succes of liberty.
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What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
Source: Paradise lost (1667) -
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
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