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Tag Name "Favours" (60)

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To be resigned when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given, - Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part This is that incense of the heart Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
Nathaniel Cotton
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False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight.
Francis Quarles
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We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
Thucydides
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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Fortune, delighting in her cruel task, and playing her wanton game untiringly, is ever shifting her uncertain favours.
Horace
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Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
Terry Eagleton
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Usually God favours the people who try to do good. So, when you find that the crowd is desperately trying to sell, help them and buy. When you find that the crowd is overenthusiastically trying to buy, help them and sell. It usually works out.
John Templeton
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There can be no doubt that probability increases with practice. Fortune favours the brave, fortune favours the prepared mind, and fortune favours those who work the hardest.
Michael Kenna
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Love, like Fortune, favours the bold.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
Jacques Delors
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What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
Andre Maurois
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Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said chance favours the prepared mind, which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice.
Al Murray
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