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«From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied»
«The man whose authority is recent is always stern.»
«Be gentle to all, and stern with yourself.»
«Those men who are happy in this world, who are generous towards their relatives, kind to strangers, indifferent to the wicked, loving to the good, shrewd in their dealings with the base, frank with the learned, courageous with enemies, humble with elders and stern with the wife.»
«The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.»
«Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.»
«Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, There is no sterner moralist than Pleasure»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Wisdom | Keywords: moralist, pour out, sages, sterner
«Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.»
«Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Ambition | Keywords: sterner
«Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings;Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.»