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Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.


Sarah Fielding


#courtship #deserve #flattery #highest #insolence

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.


Michael Jordan


#be true #because #bestowed #effort #forth

Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration.


Bill Toomey


#concentration #depth #honor #incredible #investigation

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.


John Milton


#awe #bestows #change #encounter #everyday

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.


William Makepeace Thackeray


#bestowed #better #blesses #days #gives

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.


Richard M. Nixon


#greatest #history #honor #peacemaker

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


#certain #decided #forced #her #herself

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


Thomas Hobbes


#bestows #equal #equally #experience #men

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


#fallen #hero #heroic #heroism #impossible

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


#emotions #every #external #external objects #find






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