"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp… — Robert Burns
• It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion… — Alexander Hamilton
• It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion… — Alexander Hamilton
• Good character is that quality which makes one dependable whether being watched or not, which makes one truthful when it… — Unknown Author
• It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness. — Charles Caleb Colton
• With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. — Abraham Lincoln
• As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room… — Thomas Huxley
• We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and… — Samuel Johnson
• [Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people. — Thomas Jefferson
• God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every… — Phyllis McGinley
• Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level,… — William Shakespeare

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