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«Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.»
Author: George E. Woodberry
| About:
Defeat,
Failure
| Keywords:
defeat, failures, tried, tried and true
«Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
adversity, all but, appellation, be intimate, be well, confidence, courteous, entitle, entitled, entitles, intimate, intimates, intimate with, intimating, plant, shocks, slow, tried, tried and true, undergo, undergone, underwent, well-tried, withstand, withstanding, withstood
«The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right»
Author: Hannah Whitall Smith
| About:
Advice
| Keywords:
advice, honestly, indifferent, perfectly, persist, persist in, tried and true
«The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.»
Author: Larry Flynt
(Publisher)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship,
Love,
Words
| Keywords:
count, die, Die Trying, English, entire, fingered, fingering, fingers, hand, misuse, misused, on one hand, start, tried and true, trying
«A true friend never breaches the trust of his companion or stabs in his back. He is trustworthy and reliable. One should therefore always try to be a true and reliable friend. »
Author: Sam Veda
| Keywords:
breached, breaches, breach of trust, companion, reliable, stabbing, stabs, therefore, tried and true, trust, trustworthy, try
«Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion ?- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
animal, brother, cuts, globe, globes, Globe and, Good Neighbors, graveyard, graveyards, his brother, neighbor, several, smooth, straight, theologies, theology, The Globe, The Good Neighbor, throat, tried and true
«But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
charmed, charming, exactly, flatter, flat out, Friend, friendship, give it a try, giving, going, indeed, knows, means, of one mind, pain, please, preferring, prefers, really, say, says, tried and true, try, unpleasant
«People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
consistent, contradict, contradicted, contradicting, honestly, rarely, tried and true
