"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."

Conviction, Poems

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"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction."

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"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."

Aiden Wilson Tozer, American Clergyman

Conviction, Faith, Action, Belief

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

Gertrude Stein, American Author

Conviction, Luck

"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."

Jeffrey Fry, American Author

Conviction, Persuasion, Effort, Belief

"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

Conviction, Certainty, Confidence, Action

"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."

George Eliot, British Author

Conviction, Literary, Production

"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."

Powell Clayton, American Politician

Conviction, Man

"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."

Donald Miller, American Author

Conviction, Belief, Responsibility, Truth

"If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction."

Alex Chilton, American Musician

Conviction, Expression, Song, Spirit

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Conviction, Man, Nothing

"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."

Rollo May, American Psychologist

Conviction, Courage, Integrity, Truth

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"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."

Fool

"Do not go gentle into that good night."

Night

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."

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"But time has set its maggot on their track."

Time

"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."

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"The function of posterity is to look after itself."

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"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."

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

"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."

"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."

"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."

"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."

"If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction."

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."

"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."

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"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."

"Though lovers be lost love shall not."

"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."

"Do not go gentle into that good night."

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."

"But time has set its maggot on their track."

"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."

"The function of posterity is to look after itself."