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“I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."”

People Country Wise Failing Generations Dangerous Cry Pride Prove Ambition Dignity Institutions Selfish Our Country Secure Welfare Schemes Mock Deceptive True Patriotism False Pride

Author:Carl Schurz

“Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit: And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d. He that bewails and not forsakes them too; Confesses rather what he means to do.”

Mean Sin Failing Cry Mercy Commit Repentance Forsake

Author:Francis Quarles

“Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.”

Thinking Important Feelings Suffering Community Space Failing Cry Expression Okay Happy Life Sad Day Expression Of Feeling

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.”

People World Past Moving Born Hurt Deals Situation Failing Cry This World Becoming Mess Fearful Bloody Differentiate

Author:Robert Greene

“I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.”

Matter Reason Helping Use Religion Failing Cry Positive Atheism Sects

Book:Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions

Source: Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on the conduct of the understanding. With the author's last additions

“Maybe crying is a means of cleaning yourself out emotionally. Or maybe it's your last resort; the only way to express yourself when words fail, the same as when you were a baby and had no words.”

Way Mean Lasts Failing Cry Baby Cleaning Resorts Express Yourself

Author:Aristotle