| "Never think that God's delays are God's denials. hold on hold fast hold out. Patience is genius." »George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon |
| "If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'hold on'" »Rudyard Kipling |
| "hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly the chances are, it's holding you too." »Bob Alberti |
| "If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example." »Sir Walter Besant |
| "Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost." »Kaleel Jamison |
| "Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear." »William Shakespeare |
| "My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial." »Charles De Gaulle |
| "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour" »Aphra Behn |
| "But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know." »Alan B. Watts |
| "Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us." »Vincent Voiture |
| "Die I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him." »John Barrymore |
| "Oh too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear" »Lord Byron |
| "Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow." »Arthur Stringer |
| "Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return." »Samuel Cunningham |
| "Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones." »Montagu Butler |
| "A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost." »Euripides |
| "When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near." »Samuel Hoffenstein |
| "All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green." »Johann von Goethe |
| "An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person." »Joseph Addison |
| "There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been." »Virginia Hanson |
| "Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God's love commits me here Ever this day be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and guide." »Catholic Prayer |
| "Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence." »Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| "dear brightest star o'er Bethlehem, O let your precious light shine in with hope and peace toward men in every home tonight." »Swedish Carol |
| "As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know" »Unknown |
| "A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right." »Henry Louis Mencken |
| "I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious." »Vince Lombardi |
| "Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear." »W. Allingham |
| "How blessed and amazing are God's gifts, dear friends Life with immortality, splendor with righteousness, truth with confidence, faith with assurance, self-control with holiness And all these things are within our comprehension." »Clement of Rome |
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