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“When a Forsyte was engaged, married, or born, the Forsytes were present; when a Forsyte diedbut no Forsyte had as yet died; they did not die; death being contrary to their principles, they took precautions against it, the instinctive precautions of highly vitalised persons who resent encroachments on their property.”

Persons Dies Born Principles Married Died Property Contrary Engaged Resent Precaution Encroachment

Author:John Galsworthy

“Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.”

“If, for example, one day Ki Bagoes Hadikoesoemo becomes the Indonesian Head of State, and dies, won't his child be [his replacement]? Then because of that I do not adhere to the principle of monarchism.”

Ifs Children States Dies Principles Example One Day Replacements Head Of State

Author:Sukarno

“Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.”

“Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.”

Men Religion Dies Principles Wise Safe Being True Granted Hypothesis True Or False

Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...

“We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.”

People Needs Sometimes Dies Poor Accepting Principles Poor People

Author:Tyler Cowen

“Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.”

Source: Nobody Here But Us Chickens

“To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.”

Dies Winning Principles Hero Battle Heroic

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“In England, wit is at least a profession, if not an art. everything becomes professional there, and even the rogues of that islandare pedants. So are the "wits" there too. They introduce into reality absolute freedom whose reflection lends a romantic and piquant air to wit, and thus they live wittily; hence their talent for madness. They die for their principles.”

Ifs Art Reality Dies Principles Air Talent Reflection Madness England Absolutes Profession Wit Introducing Rogues Absolute Freedom Pedants

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.”

Facts Pain Dies Moral Principles Evidence Standing Crosses Holiness Physical Pain

Book:The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life

Source: The Holy Spirit: Activating God's Power in Your Life

“True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.”

Different Character Dies Love Is Principles Holy Impulse Tested Awakened True Love Is

Book:The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 1. Patriarchs and Prophets—Illustrated

Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 1. Patriarchs and Prophets—Illustrated