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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