"It is better to be true to what……" — Anna Howard Shaw
"It is better to be true to what you believe, though that be wrong, than to be false to what you believe, even if that belief is correct."
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17 Quotes by Anna Howard Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw has 17 quotes on this site.
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Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
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The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth…
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Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.
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I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness, good faith, good friends and all the work I…
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Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT…
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Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality…
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Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was…
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On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the…
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Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
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I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can…
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I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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