"Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."

-- Horatio Nelson

#Country Quotes #Believe Quotes #Forgiving Quotes

“Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger”
“The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.”
“The meaning of the presupposition is the method of verificationâ€¦ we know the meaning of the statement if we know the conditions under which the statement is true or false.”
“I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”

Source : Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.88, Canongate Books
“I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates”

Source : "Eurogroup chief: 'I'm for secret, dark debates'" by Valentina Pop, euobserver.com. April 21, 2011.
“Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.”
“For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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