Fortify Quotes
37 quotes by 33 authors
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A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are…
— Michel de Montaigne
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We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.
— Steven Pressfield
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls…
— Walter Lippmann
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they…
— Ramakrishna
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Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.
— Frans de Waal
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And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown bring back the…
— Stuart Hill
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It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite…
— Virginia Woolf
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...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in…
— John Piper
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Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the…
— Osamu Dazai
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There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as…
— Stefan Zweig
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Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
— George Washington
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Adversity, if you allow it to, will fortify you and make you the best you can be.
— Kerri Walsh
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An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from…
— Glenn Greenwald
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To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay…
— F. Sionil Jose
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
— Seamus Heaney
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The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of…
— Sydney Smith
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[his healing skills] ..lay in the ability to comfort, to comfort in the proper sense, to make strong, to fortify from The Hippopotamus
— Stephen Fry
Who Wrote These Fortify Quotes
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