Quotes with retains

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• If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

  ― Sigmund Freud
  Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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• The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impression it receivest oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones.

  ― Augustus William Hare
  British writer (1792 - 1834)
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• The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.

  ― Berthold Auerbach
  German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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• Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

  ― Carl von Clausewitz
  Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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• Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

  ― Francis Quarles
  British poet (1592 - 1644)
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• Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

  ― Andre Breton
  French writer (1896 - 1966)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• silver-leaved
• indispensable
• glimmerings
• confidence
• impression
• possession

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