Quotations Page 'F'

Man is read in his face.

- Ben Johnson -

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A cheerrful face is merely as good for an invalid as health weather.

- Franklin -

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Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

- Shakespeare -

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Party is the madness of many for the gain of the few.

- Pope, Miscellanious -

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Get your facts, and then you can distort them as you please.

- Mark Twain, Interview -

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And even his failings leaned to virtue's side.

- Goldsmith, Deserted Village -

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

- Keats, Pref.to Edymion -

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But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honour and glosy and tears.

- Joaquim Miller -

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They went forth to battle, but they always fell.

- Macphfrson, Cath-loda -

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If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

- Mahatma Gandhi, The Epic of Travancore -

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Faith is the continuation of reason.

- William Adams -

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Work without faith is like an attempt to the bottomless pit.

- Mahatma Gandhi -

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The deepest hunger of a faithfull heart is faithfulness.

- Eliot, Spanish Gypsey -

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Dropped from the zenith like a fallen star.

- Milton -

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How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!

- Old Testament, Isaiah -

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How are the mighty fallen star.

- Old Testament, II Samuel -

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We are none of us infallible, not even youngest.

- W.H.Thompson -

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Passion for fame : a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

- Burke, Speech on American Taxation -

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Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

- Socrates -

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