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• Tomorrow sees undone, what happens not to-day; Still forward press, nor never tire! The possible, with steadfast trust, Resolve should be by the forelock grasp. Then she will ne'er let go her clasp, And labors on, because she must.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Trust, Letting Go, Tomorrow

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• On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away.

  William Wordsworth

  Time, Moving, Scene

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.197

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• The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The danger of the two-talent man is that he will be content with mediocrity.

  Walter Russell Bowie

  Sweet, Men, Two

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• The test of friendship is its fidelity when every charm of fortune and environment has been spent away, and the bare, undraped character alone remains; if love still holds steadfast, and the joy of companionship survives in such an hour, the fellowship becomes a beautiful prophecy of immortality.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Friendship, Beautiful, Character

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• Exemplary persons are steadfast in the face of adversity, while petty persons are engulfed by it.

  Confucius

  Adversity, Faces, Persons

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• There are normal times when it is wholly admirable to be steadfast, resolute, unconflicted, and therefore when integrity is unmistakenly a virtue. The person of integrity knows what to do, and does it. But as we have been exploring, there are also times when certainty and single-mindedness indicate something less admirable: a deafness to voices that should be heard or a blindness to aspects of a situation that need to be considered.

  Simon Blackburn

  Integrity, Voice, Doe

  Simon Blackburn (2014). “Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love”, p.173, Princeton University Press

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• Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means having as rich and noble a heritage of language, culture, patriotism and heroic deeds as any nation on earth. Let us teach a steadfast faith in Divine Providence, a stable family institution, the unhampered enjoyment of civil liberties, the advantages of constitutional government, the potentials of a rich and spacious land.

  Carlos P. Romulo

  Mean, Heroic Deeds, Government

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• Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

  Vera Nazarian

  Fall, Army, Soldier

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• To the Cold War veterans here, know that your steadfast efforts preserved a delicate balance, and, because of you, the global war that many feared never came to pass. We are thankful for you, as we are for all the veterans here with us.

  Michael Mullen

  War, Effort, Victory

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• An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment.

  Jane Austen

  Grateful, Meditation, Fearless

  Jane Austen (1853). “Northanger abbey, and Persuasion”, p.285

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• Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively.

  Haile Selassie

  Determination, Fall, Hard Work

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• You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.

  Stephen Spender

  Lying, Moving, Eye

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.153, Faber & Faber

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• I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.

  John Constable

  Flower, Eye, Dark

  John Constable (1968). “John Constable's Correspondence”

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• I have just accepted the invitation of Her Majesty The Queen to form a Government. This will be a new Government with new priorities and I have been privileged to have been granted the great opportunity to serve my country and at all times I will be strong in purpose, steadfast in will, resolute in action in the service of what matters to the British people, meeting the concerns and aspirations of our whole country.

  Gordon Brown

  Country, Strong, Queens

  "Gordon Brown's First Speech as Prime Minister". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• It's got to be hard to be a band that's trading on your 40-year-old hits, where there's a certain thing that's expected of you. But that's why I admire Bob Dylan's live performances - he's steadfast about mixing up the songs, not just sticking to his greatest hits, and reinterpreting them to the extent that you really can't recognize them until halfway through. It's like, I DARE you to sing along.

  Amy Argetsinger

  Song, Years, Mixing

  Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2010.

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• There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will be no bright sign in the sky or brilliant light on earth? All this will make us more patient and steadfast, and better prepared for the battle which God blesses and which good men support. Then there will only be a glorious conclusion, where a brilliant sun will clear the dust of battle, and where the clouds of battles will be dispelled.

  Saddam Hussein

  Men, Clouds, Light

  1991 Baghdad radio broadcast, 21 Feb.

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• But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.

  Pope Pius X

  Clever, Teaching, Reality

  Pope Pius X's Encyclical letter "Pascendi dominici gregis", w2.vatican.va. September 8,1907.

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• Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Compassion, Mind, Affliction

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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• Remain steadfast in the faith; instruct yourself; bridle your tongue; repress your wrath; forbear to do evil; associate with the good; screen the faults of your neighbour; relieve the poor by your alms; and expect your reward in eternity.

  Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

  Wrath, Evil, Rewards

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• It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Meaningful, Wisdom, Opportunity

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• Put thou thy trust in God;
  In duty's path go on;
  Fix on His word thy steadfast eye;
  So shall thy work be done.

  Martin Luther

  Eye, Done, Goes On

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• I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives
  First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves
  The world; and, vainly favored, it repays
  The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze
  By no change of its large calm front of snow.

  Robert Browning

  Long, Snow, World

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.146, Lulu.com

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• A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

  William Faulkner

  Past, Simple, Men

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• …the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of summer, but a clear, steadfast, serene blue, as if the water were past all modes and tenses of emotion and had settled down to a tranquillity unbroken by fickle dreams.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Dream, Spring

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• A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.

  Amish Tripathi

  Character, Amish, Ethics

  Amish Tripathi (2012). “The Immortals of Meluha: The Shiva Trilogy”, p.78, Hachette UK

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