Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Autobiography of Lorenzo Snow Our former loved associates Have mostly passed away While those we knew as children Are crowned with locks of gray. We saw Times varied traces Were deep on every hand Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The bands that once with firmness Could grasp the axe and blade, Now move with trembling motion, By strength of nerve decayed. The change in form and feature And furrows on the cheek Of Times increasing volume, In plain, round numbers speak. And thus, as in a mirrors Reflection, we were told, With stereotyped impressions, The fact of growing old.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity and firmness of men worthy of freedom.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision And yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
The standards of the international community manifest firmness. Iran has no need for long-range missiles or to collaborate with terrorist organizations all over the world.
This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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