"How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?"
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"Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance."
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"Material development alone does not yield genuine inner peace."
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"I must yield to you, for you are irresistible."
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"This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot."
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"Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull."
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"Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly."
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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
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"While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all."
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"If thou wishest to put an end to love, attend to business (love yields to employment); then thou wilt be safe. [Lat., Qui finem quaeris amoris, (Cedit amor rebus) res age; tutus eris.]"
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"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked."
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"Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact."
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"When you yield yourself in complete and whole-hearted obedience to God, He can do great things through you."
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"If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame."
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"Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight."
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"Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest."
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"The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced."
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"For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier."
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"Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer."
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"The Universe is not discriminating about the rightness or the wrongness of your request. It is here to accommodate all requests. All you have to do is be a Vibrational Match to your request, and the Universe will yield it to you."
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