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• Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us.

  Michelangelo

  Christianity

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• Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Long, Purpose

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• The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

  Peter Abelard

  Passion, Men, Scripture

  Orlando Williams Wight, Peter Abelard, Héloïse, Alphonse de Lamartine (1861). “Lives and Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.209

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• When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

  Confucius

  Mistake, Educational, Failure

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Society, Substance, Body

  Michel de Montaigne (2003). “The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters”, Everyman's Library

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• It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Abandoned

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• Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

  Feeling Alone, Feelings, First Impression

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• I see that you are not sure of what you should do. You must remain steadfast, Monsieur. It would be a great wrong for you to leave and an irreparable scandal to the town and the Company. If you were to abandon the house, I do not think people would ever be willing to welcome us back. Fear not; calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Thinking, People

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

  Will Durant

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• You cannot all abandon your possessions, but at least you can change your attitude about them. All getting separates you from others; all giving unites to others.

  Francis of Assisi

  Attitude, Giving, Possession

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• These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind generated by these teachings, How much more so should you abandon bad states of mind!

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

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• It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

  Claude Debussy

  People, Oblivion

  "The Cambridge Companion to Debussy". Book by Simon Trezise, 2003.

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• The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.

  Quintilian

  Soul, Obscurity, Rust

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• I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that doesn't feel like it will turn into a keeper.

  Robin Pecknold

  Writing, Thinking, Labor

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• No, I won't abandon hate. If I did, then nothing would be left of me.

  Yana Toboso

  Hate, Would Be, Left

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• In the roughest moments, remember: God is our Father; God does not abandon his children.

  Pope Francis

  Children, Father, Doe

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• I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.

  Francois Rabelais

  Confidence, Hope, Religion

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• People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of mutual aid, because the astonishing thing about disasters is that people are often weirdly joyous in them, because they've recovered a sense of agency, a sense of power, etc.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Agency, People, Etc

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Makeup, Vulnerable

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.18, Penguin

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• I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Believe, Thinking

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Artist, Who I Am, People

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• All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rathy they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.

  Andre Trocme

  Wisdom, Peace, Mean

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• How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Men, Order, Doe

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• Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

  Dante Alighieri

  Motto

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• It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself.
  People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?

  Richard Dawkins

  Believe, Ignorance, People

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