Best Bestow Lines
184 Bestow quotes by 152 unique authors
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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you…
— Rumi
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Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself…
— John Updike
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Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective…
— David A. Bednar
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God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.
— Saint Augustine
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LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own…
— William Shakespeare
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A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.
— Og Mandino
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Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even…
— Paulo Freire
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What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only…
— Margaret Atwood
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The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away...
— Miguel de Cervantes
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In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so arrogantly ignorant that…
— David James Duncan
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Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out;…
— Thomas Aquinas
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As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it…
— Jane Austen
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Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon…
— Aldous Huxley
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Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.
— Sebastian Horsley
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Vic nudged my elbow with his. "You and me are still friends, right? You guys get a joint custody in the divorce. Generous visitations rights."…
— Claudia Gray
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Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the…
— Rumi
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Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
— Charles Dickens
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But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps…
— Margaret Atwood
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows…
— Henry David Thoreau
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That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably…
— Gail Carson Levine
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Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that…
— Gilles Deleuze
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I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
— Jane Austen
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Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.
— Claudia Gray
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