A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.
No language is rude that can boast polite writers.
What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato. The best part is underground.
We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.
It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities.
You must be yielded to the Word of God. The Word will work out love in our hearts, and when practical love is in our hearts, there is no room to boast about ourselves. We see ourselves as nothing when we get lost in this divine love.
A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
The devil, darkness, and death may swagger and boast, the pangs of life will sting for a while longer, but don't worry; the forces of evil are breathing their last. Not to worry...He's risen!
It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.
If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I answer, 'He is under a ruinous delusion, and is not forgiven at all.' I would not believe he is forgiven if an angel from heaven affirmed it, and I charge you not to believe it too. Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and waterthey will never go together. All who are washed in the blood of Christ, are also sanctified by the Spirit of Christ.
Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.
In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fixed, 'tis fixed as in a frost.
I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law... There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.
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