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At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. ↗

— Ovid

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It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. ↗

— Saint Patrick

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No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. ↗

— James K. Polk

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It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. ↗

— Anthony Powell

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Even a faithful mistress can be bent by constant threats. ↗

— Sextus Propertius

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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us. ↗

— William Ames

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Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God. ↗

— William Ames

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