“ You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. ”
- Langston Hughes- Copy
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“ The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ When Ellen came back with the Emmys (in November 2001), she was coming back to a culture that had been put on total and complete hold,... a felicitous coincidence. ”
- Robert Thompson- Copy
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“ Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance — the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. ”
- Benjamin Franklin- Copy
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“ I count religion but a childish toy, And hold there is no sin but ignorance. Birds of the air will tell of murders past. I am asham'd to hear such fooleries! ”
- Christopher Marlowe- Copy
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“ The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Only when manhood is dead — and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it — only then will we know what it is to be free. ”
- Andrea Dworkin- Copy
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“ Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go. ”
- Gerald R. Ford- Copy
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“ The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Ah tell me not that memory sheds gladness over the past; what is recalled by faded flowers save that they did not last? ”
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon- Copy
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“ Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. ”
- Humphry Davy- Copy
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“ The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. ”
- Phillips Brooks- Copy
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“ For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. - Baba Dioum. ”
- Baba Dioum- Copy
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“ Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ”
- Zelda Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ”
- Leo F. Buscaglia- Copy
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“ Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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“ Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. ”
- Lord Alfred Tennyson- Copy
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“ Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ”
- Jeanne Moreau- Copy
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“ Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
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“ In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:Be not the first by whom the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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