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«There is but one failure, and that is, not to be true to the very best one knows»
Author: Canon Farrar
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true to
«Keep true to the dreams of your youth.»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Dreams,
Truth,
Youth
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true to
«It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.»
«I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
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abhorrence, hazard, hazarding, incur, incurred, incurring, incurs, ridicule, true to
«I want to come from love. And I want to do it all the time. I can't expect it to always look the same, though. I remember a friend saying that God loved his daughter enough to say no ? something he had a hard time with. Sometimes love says, ?No, this doesn't work for me.? Sometimes love walks away ... because staying would conflict with loving and being true to who we are. And, staying would make it very difficult to come from love.»
Author: Jan Denise
(Author, Columnist, Speaker)
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daughter, hard time, staying, The Daughter of Time, true to
«I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far right and the far left and a deeper sense of rage and sorrow over the suffering they continue to produce all over the wor»
Author: Joan Baez
(Singer, Song Writer)
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Nonviolence
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aversion, developing, far-right, far left, Ideologies, nonviolence, The Suffering, true to
«The dissenting opinion has continued since 1792 as a great American tradition. It is as true to the character of our democracy as of speech itself.»
Author: William Orville Douglas
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As of, continued, dissenting, dissenting opinion, true to
«On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.»
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(Author, Pilot, Writer)
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annihilate, annihilated, annihilates, burial, bury, cares, chore, chores, crowds, cry out, dead hand, detain, detained, die away, False friend, False friends, fragmentary, immediate, leaving, left handed, mourning, mourns, perspective, round, shaken, shake the hand, substantial, tear, The Dead, true to
«Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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disorganization, loose, nay, nays, organization, true to
«No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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acknowledge, and others, apply, convictions, differently, expresses, give way, mature, nevertheless, occasions, temperaments, Trials, true to, withstand
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