Anne Bronte Quotes
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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Stand in your own truth and you will command respect.
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Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time.
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It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.
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The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his least command when it is right, and even when it's not.
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Only one in command: that's the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.
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If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.
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If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.
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Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
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The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting. For it may be said of men in general that they are ungrateful, voluble, dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger, and covetous of gain; as long as you benefit them, they are entirely yours; they offer you their blood, their goods, their life, and their children, as I have before said, when the necessity is remote; but when it approaches, they revolt.
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If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
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Certainly, there are huge, multiplatinum bands whose singers command their audience's attention. Sadly, much of the time they have little to say.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.
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You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
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I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
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Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.
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No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
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If some black man go out and start something, a riot or something or, I'm not going to jump in it and get killed because he's gone out and started something I don't believe in what he's fighting for or his approach.
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The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.
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To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.
