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"Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives."
"The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day."
"At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience."
"If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?"
"If one is honest there is no need to remember."
"If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer's character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist's presence."
"To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward."
"I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind."
"It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor."
"Violence is anything that denies human integrity, and leads to hopelessness and helplessness."
"I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can."
"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."
"I am a great believer in loyalty, trust and integrity. Gary made a commitment to this club, the supporters and myself and I fully expect him to homour that commitment."
"I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your story, but the reality you are setting it within."
"My goal is to replicate prosperity with integrity."
"Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues."
"Don't congratulate yourself for baseline integrity."
"I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs."
"Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group."
"Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses."
