Fidelity Quotes - Page 7

• I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

  Jane Austen

  Marriage, Dance, Country

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• Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy.

  Emma Goldman

  Honesty, Self, Justice

  Essay in the Mother Earth Journal, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. February 1916.

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• For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Causes, Influence, Virtue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1939). “The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.212, Columbia University Press

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• The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

  Bonaventure

  Religious, Men, Perfect

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• Sexual fidelity is more important in a homosexual relationship than in any other. In other relationships there are a variety of ties. But here, fidelity is the only bond.

  W. H. Auden

  Ties, Important, Homosexuality

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• He is like to be mistaken who makes choice of a covetous man for a friend, or relieth upon the reed of narrow and poltroon friendship. Pitiful things are only to be found in the cottages of such breasts; but bright thoughts, clear deeds, constancy, fidelity, bounty and generous honesty are the gems of noble minds, wherein (to derogate from none) the true, heroic English gentleman hath no peer.

  Thomas Browne

  Honesty, Men, Choices

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Repertorium. A letter to a friend. Christian morals. Certain miscellany tracts. Unpublished papers”, p.79

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• It is more difficult for a man to be faithful to his mistress when he is favored than when he is ill treated by her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Faithful, Mistress

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• I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud.

  Jon Stewart

  Placebo Effect, Missing, Golden Girls

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• Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Making Love, Ruins

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• Depth has one address: fidelity in love.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Love You, Depth, Addresses

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• And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

  Alan Watts

  Love Is, Ideas, Two

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• Christianity loses its scriptural fidelity and internal power when it no longer affirms both sola fide and the necessity of obedience.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christianity, Obedience, Internals

  Twitter post from Jan 02, 2015

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• The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Honesty, Integrity, Mean

  1990 Frontiers,'Night and Day'.

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• Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.

  Keith Rabois

  People, Decision, Tools

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• Sam Hamill is a writer unabashedly taking his place within the community of literature and the community of all sentient beings-his fidelity is to the magnificent truth of existence, and to its commensurate singing.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Community, Singing, Literature

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• The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Stupid, Believe

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• May the joy of our fidelity to the highest and best within us be ours as we keep our love and our marriages, our society and our souls, as pure as they were meant to be.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Joy, Soul, Our Love

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• Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.

  Russell Hoban

  Heart, Sea, Perception

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Medusa Frequency”, p.70, A&C Black

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• If devotion to the Blessed Virgin is necessary for all men simply to work out their salvation, it is even more necessary for those who are called to a special perfection. I do not believe that anyone can acquire intimate union with our Lord and perfect fidelity to the Holy Spirit without a very close union with the most Blessed Virgin and an absolute dependence on her support.

  Louis de Montfort

  Christian, Believe, Blessed

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• Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it conveyed with such fidelity almost straight into the brain, I think the technology is also a danger.

  Oliver Sacks

  Technology, Thinking, Brain

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm not Frank Bough, either. I am getting older and a bit more sensible. I'm not going to be popping up in dungeons every six months. If you catch me preaching fidelity while I am shagging chickens then throw the book at me. Otherwise, leave me alone.

  Steve Coogan

  Mother, Book, Leave Me Alone

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• Tremendous indeed is the occult influence of sex-love upon the evolution of organic life. Love and glory, fidelity, emulation, resolution, beauty, strength, and courage are directly inspired by sex-passions.

  Arthur Desmond

  Sex, Passion, Love Life

  "Might is Right". Book by Ragnar Redbeard, Chapter 6: Love, and Women, and War, 6, 1890.

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• And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Honor

  "John Kerry Gets His Voice Back" by James Boyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2006.

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• The paradox in the evolution of French painting from Courbet to Cezanne is how it was brought to the verge of abstraction in and by its very effort to transcribe visual appearance with ever greater fidelity.

  Clement Greenberg

  Effort, Cezanne, Evolution

  "Art and Culture: Critical Essays". Book by Clement Greenberg, "On the Role of Nature in Modernist Painting" (1949), p. 171, 1961.

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• In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Distance, Joy, Doe

  "Nine Old Men". Book by Drew Pearson and Robert Sharon Allen, 1936.

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