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Letter "F" » forfeits
«Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.»
«To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense»
«Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.»
«He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
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Essayist,
Theologian,
Writer)
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Keywords:
alert,
dexterity,
forfeits,
fortune teller,
fortune tellers,
impel,
impelled,
impels,
inertia,
intimation,
intimations,
lays,
submissive,
tellers,
unwittingly
«If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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President)
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About:
Confidence
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Keywords:
all of,
citizens,
Citizens for,
confidence,
esteem,
Esteeming,
esteems,
fellow,
fool,
forfeit,
forfeited,
forfeits,
regain,
regained,
regaining,
regains,
respect,
Some of,
The Fellows,
The People,
The Time
«If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.»
«If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
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Mathematician,
Philosopher,
Physicist)
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Keywords:
crucified,
crucifying,
cursed,
divine grace,
forfeited,
forfeits,
Peace of,
peace of mind,
philosophers,
redeemed,
unbelief
«Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
and then,
breaks,
deliberately,
forfeited,
forfeits,
hold,
intelligently,
personally,
pledge,
pledged,
pledges,
takes,
taking hold
«By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Essayist,
Lecturer,
Poet)
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Keywords:
forfeit,
forfeited,
forfeits,
gain,
great,
little,
path,
path of least,
persisted,
persisting,
The Great,
though
«In this world of her parents' home, the soul-bride has been deluded by doubt. Attached to duality, she later comes to regret it. She forfeits both this world and the next, and even in her dreams, she does not find peace.»