"Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable."
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"It is better to be faithful than famous."
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"It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger."
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"God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important."
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"Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams."
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"It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds."
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"Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors."
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"The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure - the costly, exacting mistress."
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"Scientists are human. We have our blind spots and prejudices. Science is a mechanism designed to ferret them out. Problem is we aren't always faithful to the core values of science."
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"Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite."
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"Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses."
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"This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being faithful to truth and right on small occasions and common events. Third, by trusting in God for help and power."
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"It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything."
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"By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own."
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"If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it."
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"O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!"
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"True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs."
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"The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death."
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"Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?"
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"That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire."
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