Favors Quotes
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And for our unparalleled ingratitude to that Adorable Being Who has seated us in a land irradiated by the cheering beams of the Gospel of Jesus Christ ... let us fall prostrate before offended Deity, confess sincerely and penitently our manifold sins and our unworthiness of the least of His Divine favors, fervently implore His pardon through the merits of our mediator.
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The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
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I'm against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.
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The Constitution favors no racial group - no political or social group.
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We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.
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All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.
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Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.
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I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause.
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Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.
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Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.
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Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others.
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I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.
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The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
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Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
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I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.
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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
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To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't
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One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
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Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of
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Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.
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It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.
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In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.
