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"Faith is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."
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"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions - not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes."

"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."

"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."

"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."

"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."

"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."

"If the Lord is for you, which He unquestionably is, who else other than yourself would dare to stop you from proclaiming your true destiny?"

"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
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"Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty."

"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."

"Take a winter as you find him and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow with no nonsense in him: and tolerating none in you which is a great comfort in the long run."
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