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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

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Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man. ↗

— John Updike

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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ↗

— David Hume

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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good. ↗

— Felix Adler

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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley. ↗

— Mo Brooks

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