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17 quotesOnly a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Tragedies
Jacques Barzun
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Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
Abstinence
Ambrose Bierce
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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
Weakness
Edmund Burke
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
Decisions
Charles Caleb Colton
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It is change; all yields its place and goes.
Change
Euripides
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Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield.
Wealth
Benjamin Franklin
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You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
Temptation
Anthony Hope
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We are free to yield to truth.
Freedom
Horace
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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
Law and Lawyers
Thomas Jefferson
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Liberty
Thomas Jefferson
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Achievement
Charles Kuralt
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Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing.
Tyranny
Lord Moulton
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Thoughts and Thinking
Thomas Paine
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A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Seduction
Henri B. Stendhal
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To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Action
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Risk
Virgil
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Death and Dying
Virginia Woolf
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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun