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Tag Name "Favour" (228)

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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.
Jane Austen
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God's favour is happiness.
Matthew Henry
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Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Seneca the Younger
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Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.
Roy Jenkins
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Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.
Aravind Adiga
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It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.
Andrea Bocelli
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We want people to have a stake in the British economy so I am in favour of actually encouraging people to have small shareholdings and feel they've got a stake in our economic future.
George Osborne
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Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.
Vladimir Kramnik
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To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them for they prove, at least, our power, and show that our favour is valued, since it is purchased by the meanness of falsehood.
Samuel Johnson
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Favour will as surely perish as life.
George Herbert
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Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.
Hassan II of Morocco
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Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness, that from its first to its last day we may be glad and rejoice in Thee. Let January open with joy in the Lord, and December close with gladness in Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
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I'm in favour of politicians having extra-marital relationships. Oh yeah. It makes them more understanding of the flaws that the rest of us have.
Joe Klein
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What peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought, that we must thus make it the model of the whole universe? Our partiality in our own favour does indeed present it on all occasions but sound philosophy ought carefully to guard against so natural an illusion.
David Hume
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We should always speak what would please the man of whom we expect a favour,like the hunter who sings sweetly when he desires to shoot a deer.
Chanakya
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it let him who has received one, proclaim it.
Seneca the Younger
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Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.
Graham Greene
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The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.
Charles Spurgeon
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It is an almost infallible rule that the more permissive a person is on social and moral issues the more in favour they are of strict gun control.
Michael Coren
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It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.
Billy Bragg
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I see the author as the person who has written the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.
Edward St Aubyn
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
Seneca the Younger
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