Top 31 Firmest Quotes
#1. The firmest house in my fiction, probably, is the little thick-walled sandstone farmhouse of 'The Centaur' and 'Of the Farm'; I had lived in that house, and can visualize every floorboard and bit of worn molding.
John Updike
#2. Enjoy the blessings Heaven bestows, Assist his friends, forgive his foes; Trust God, and keep his statutes still, Upright and firm, through good and ill; Thankful for all that God has given, Fixing his firmest hopes on heaven; Knowing that earthly joys decay, But hoping through the darkest day.
Charlotte Bronte
#3. It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
George Eliot
#4. Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our minds, soon develops itself and destroys our firmest beliefs.
Emile Gaboriau
#5. XII Do not live for death, pay it no fear or wonder. This is the firmest law of the truest faith. Death is the dew that wets the grass in the early morning dark. It is God's entirely. Withdraw your fatal homage, and live.
Wendell Berry
#6. Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#7. in the Quran, chapter 2, verse 256 that states: "There is no compulsion in religion -- the right way is indeed clearly distinct from error. So whoever disbelieves in the devil and believes in God, he indeed lays hold on the firmest handle which shall never break. And God is Hearing, Knowing.
Angela Walden
#8. You tell the false king he doesn't have to send anyone to get me," I said in the firmest voice I could manage. "I'm coming for him. I'm coming for him, and when I find him, I'm going to kill him.
Julie Kagawa
#9. The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.
George Washington
#10. An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe ...
James Madison
#11. The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.
John Quincy Adams
#12. To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.
Sallust
#13. Tie the strings to my life, my Lord, Then I am ready to go! Just a look at the horses - Rapid! That will do! Put me in on the firmest side, So I shall never fall; For we must ride to the Judgment, And it's partly down hill.
Emily Dickinson
#14. A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.
Jeremiah Denton
#15. Rene Descartes, in order to raise skeptical doubts about even our firmest certainties, imagined that we might he under the influence of an evil demon, and more modern philosophers have speculated about the possibility of our being brains in vats.
Victor Reppert
#16. The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.
George Lillo
#17. The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend.
George Gordon Byron
#18. Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#19. Woman! experience might have told me,
That all must love thee who behold thee:
Surely experience might have taught
Thy firmest promises are nought:
But, placed in all thy charms before me,
All I forget, but to adore thee.
George Gordon Byron
#20. Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind
More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.
George Crabbe
#21. Its Seventh Commandment, italicized by the authors, stated: Battles are beyond everything else struggles of morale. Defeat is inevitable as soon as the hope of conquering ceases to exist. Success comes not to him who has suffered the least but to him whose will is firmest and morale strongest.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#22. I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. mettle: spirited bottom: capacity to endure strain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.
Thomas Jefferson
#24. There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
William E. Gladstone
#25. The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame
Charles Caleb Colton
#26. The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
Sallust
#27. When you are confronted with challenges that are difficult to conquer or you have questions arise, the answers to which you do not know, hold fast to the things you do know. Hang on to your firmest foundation, however limited that may be, and from that position of strength face the unknown.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#28. My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists.
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. Small nations, when treated as equals, become the firmest of allies." It
Pat Frank
#30. Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system.
George Washington
#31. That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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