Quotes with stern

  • We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

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  • St. Teresa of Avila Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Buffalo Bill But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Mark Twain Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Richard Martin Stern If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
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  • Bob Dylan In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
    Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instance that I preached
    My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow.
    Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Leonardo da Vinci Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
    Leonardo da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Bill Stern Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.
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  • Thomas Carlyle Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Aeschylus The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • David Lloyd George The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Anna Seward Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.
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  • Joseph Joubert We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Bill Walton We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Richard Martin Stern You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
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  • William Blake Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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