Quotes with reconcile

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• The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

  Quentin Crisp
  English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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• There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• characteristic
• persistency
• generosity
• themselves
• existence
• ourselves

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