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• For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,
  And hold-fast is the only dog.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Men, Cake

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. [53]

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• Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

  Ray Bradbury

  Needs, Shapes, Nests

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

  Nicholson Baker

  Book, Reading, Reality

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• Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever' (Isa. 40:6, 8). Let us hold fast to the commandment that abides, and despise the unreality that passes away.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Flower, Forever

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• Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

  Franz Kafka

  Writing, Diaries, Want

  Franz Kafka (1965). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka”

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• When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos

  Robert Graves

  Hands, Naked, Royal

  Robert Graves, Beryl Graves, Dunstan Ward (1999). “Complete poems”, Carcanet Pr

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• Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Philosophy, Orbit, Momentum

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Hands, Issues, Deeds

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1910). “The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne...: Tragedies: The Queen Mother; Rosamond; Chastelard; Bothwell; Mary Stuart; Locrine; The Sisters; Marino Faliero”

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• Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".

  Hippocrates

  Art, Medicine, Fruit

  "Precepts". Book by Hippocrates, Ch. 2, as translated by W. H. S. Jones (1923),

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• Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Sea, Age, Torches

  Joseph Chamberlain (1897). “Foreign & Colonial Speeches”, London ; New York : Routledge

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• Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as a refuge. Resort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, shall seek no eternal refuge, it is they, among my disciples who shall reach the very topmost height! But they must be keen to progress.

  Gautama Buddha

  Islands, Independence, Progress

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• It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Have Faith, Faith In God

  "Ramakrishna and His Disciples". Book by Christopher Isherwood, p. 263, 1965.

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• Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

  Seneca the Younger

  Health, Sound, Body

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• The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.

  Philip Pullman

  Technology, Knives, Knowing

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The will of a wealthy New York woman, in addition to distributing her worldly goods to her children, left them the following advice: Love one another. Hold fast to that whether you understand one another or not, and remember nothing really matters except being kind to one another in the name of Christ and to all the world as far as you can reach.

  James Keller

  Love, New York, Children

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• Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead them, through faith, to an understanding, rather than to have them stray away into strange paths of man-made theories and be plunged into the murky waters of disbelief and apostasy?

  Harold B. Lee

  Men, Iron, Water

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• In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

  Jane Frances de Chantal

  Letting Go, Prayer, Giving Up

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• I have experienced racism in this country. My children have experienced racism in this country. I wouldn't say America is against me. It is not an either/or proposition. But there are some people who hold fast to certain religious beliefs.

  James Peterson

  Country, Religious, Children

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Is not our chief neurosis - by which I mean our estrangement from nature - our desire to hold fast to what is forever transforming, to freeze the familiar, to submit motion to stasis, to solicit immortality through rigidity.

  James Hollis

  Mean, Forever, Desire

  James Hollis (2008). “What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life”, p.75, Penguin

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• He, that holds fast the golden mean,
  And lives contentedly between
  The little and the great,
  Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
  Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door,
  Imbitt'ring all his state.

  Horace

  Mean, Men, Doors

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

  Al-Ghazali

  Suffering, Sorrow, Affliction

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• Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Biblical, Temptation, Prove

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.304, e-artnow

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• Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

  William Ellery Channing

  Integrity, Suffering, Done

  William Ellery Channing, William Henry Channing (1860). “Memoir of William Ellery Channing, with extracts from his correspondence and manuscripts ...”, p.424

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• If we don't hold fast to our moral principles, nobody's going to. We don't have to have a majority, but once ten, fifteen, twenty million people start voting left, we'll scare the piss out of the Democrats, and they'll have to respond. But they're not going to respond to us until that happens.

  Chris Hedges

  People, Voting, Scare

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."

  William Osler

  Different, Motto, Prove

  Sir William Osler (1985). “The educational essays”

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