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• Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Injury, Regard

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• Fortune and love favour the brave.
  [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

  Ovid

  Bravery, And Love, Fortune

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• Favour will as surely perish as life.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.324

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• the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

  Agatha Christie

  Art, Favors, Detectives

  Agatha Christie (1951). “The Under Dog: And Other Stories”, New York, Dodd, Mead [1951

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• There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Fear, Coffee

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Might, Sometimes

  Jane Austen (1848). “Northanger Abbey: A Novel”, p.317

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• Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
  All had been granted but the thing we beg:
  And still some great unlikely substitute--
  Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good--
  Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

  Joanna Baillie

  Soul, Favors, Rooms

  Joanna Baillie (1806). “A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy”, p.98

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• The applause and the favour of our fellow-men
  Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

  Ovid

  Appreciation, Men, Flames

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• Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Business, Taken, Artist

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• To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

  Horace

  Men, Court, Pleasant

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• When I meet young girls, Im always like, Just do me one favour. Love what you look like right now - and remember I said it 10 years from now because its the greatest gift I can give.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Girl, Years, Giving

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• Alas, how wretched is the being who depends on the stability of public favour!

  Sarah Siddons

  Fame, Stability, Wretched

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• problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once we release Paul's justification-language from the burden of having to describe `how someone becomes a Christian', however, this is simply no longer a problem. There is no danger of imagining that Christian faith is after all a surrogate `work', let alone a substitute form of moral righteousness. Faith is the badge of covenant membership, not something someone `performs' as a kind of initiation test.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Play, Membership

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• I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

  Ken Stott

  Independent, Scotland, Wholeheartedly

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• But the severe rules of discipline which the prudence of the bishops had instituted were relaxed by the same prudence in favour of an Imperial proselyte, whom it was so important to allure, by every gentle condescension, into the pale of the church; and Constantine was permitted, at least by a tacit dispensation, to enjoy most of the privileges, before he had contracted any of the obligations, of a Christian.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon, François Guizot (1859). “Guizot's Gibbon: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.258

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• An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Heaven, Saint

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.388, Wordsworth Editions

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• He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it.

  Plutarch

  Thinking, Likes, Neglect

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.325, 谷月社

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• Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.

  Max Weber

  Causes, Hypothesis, Known

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• You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spring, Cities, Magic

  Speech at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, 1896, in 'The First Battle. A Story of the Campaign of 1896' (1896) vol. 1, ch. 10

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• Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.

  Charles Hodge

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Prayer

  Charles Hodge (1874). “Soteriology, eschatology”, p.692

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• They favour learning whose actions are worthy of a learned pen.

  George Herbert

  Action, Worthy, Pens

  George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.184

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• Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.

  George Herbert

  Knows

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.322

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• Classrooms keep getting set up more and more around the verbal and less around the kinesthetic and active. They are increasingly becoming environments that favour the girls' brain.

  Michael Gurian

  Girl, Brain, Becoming

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• All I would say is, that I can go abroad without your family coming forward to favour me, - in short, with a parting Shove of their cold shoulders; and that, upon the whole, I would rather leave England with such impetus as I possess, than derive any acceleration of it from that quarter.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, England

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.548

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• Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish. ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

  Wiley Drake

  Children, Wife, Scary

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