Cast Away Quotes - Page 2

• If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Kindness, Wicked

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• You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Mother, Daughter, Children

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• Mike, did you ever see the movie 'Cast Away?' In that movie, Tom Hanks' only friend was a ball named Wilson. In this game, Russell Wilson's only friend is a football.

  Jon Gruden

  Football, Games, Balls

  "8 Ridiculous Things Jon Gruden Said On Monday Night Football" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. October 29, 2013.

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• How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.

  Laurence Sterne

  Country, War, Air

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• Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Heart, Thinking

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.223

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• 1. Turn all care out of your head as soon as you mount the chaise.
  2. Do not think about frugality: your health is worth more than it can cost.
  3. Do not continue any day's journey to fatigue.
  4. Take now and then a day's rest.
  5. Get a smart seasickness if you can.
  6. Cast away all anxiety, and keep your mind easy.
  This last direction is the principal; with an unquiet mind neither exercise, nor diet, nor physic can be of much use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Smart, Exercise, Journey

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi (1952). “The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale's Genuine Letters to Him: 1775-1782”

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• For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.

  Samuel

  Names, People, Sake

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

  Homer

  Men, Giving, Talent

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.118, University of Chicago Press

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• The virtues of society are vices of the saint. The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues, or what we have always esteemed such, into the same pit that has consumed our grosser vices.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Discovery, Vices, Reform

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.411, Library of America

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• This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We have not only rejected AUTHORITY, but have also cast away EXPERIENCE; and often the unburthened vessel is driving to all points of the compass, and the passengers no longer know whither they are going. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by QUOTATION.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Wise, Innovation, Age

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• If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Acceptance, Crosses, Casts

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• Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

  Winston Churchill

  Leader, Soldier, Triumph

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

  Soyen Shaku

  Sleep, Shoes, Lasts

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• The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.

  Bob Sorge

  Giving Up, Enemy, Want

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• Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Vanity, Casts

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• Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make that last cast, forget it - the anguish that is - and cast away. The next fish caught on a last cast will not be the first.

  Tony Bishop

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.

  Frederick Douglass

  Song, Men, Islands

  Frederick Douglass (2009). “Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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• Sing away sorrow, cast away care.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sorrow, Care, Sin

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Thomas Roscoe (1833). “The History and Adventures of the Renowned Don Quixote”, p.184

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• One day, observing a child drinking out of his hands, he cast away the cup from his wallet with the words, "A child has beaten me in plainness of living."

  Diogenes

  Children, Drinking, Hands

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best.

  Sophocles

  Friendship, Love Is, One Love

  Sophocles (1837). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.19

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• When you cast away all your greed and fixation in adversity, you can find unexpected strength.

  Momofuku Ando

  Adversity, Greed, Unexpected

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• We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do good, and they have been provided by God for the good of men: they are at hand and serve as the material, the instruments for a good use in the hand of him who knows how to use them.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Men, Hands, Benefits

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• We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor. In this way he can bring discouragement and surrender. But we must not lose hope. The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. Though we may see that we have far to go on the road to perfection, we must not give up hope.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Giving Up, Men, Anchors

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

  Kenneth Hare

  Sweet, Garden, Rose

  Kenneth Hare (1957). “Nymphs and Rivers: (a Selection from Poems Composed Between 1910 and 1957)”

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• Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little.care and thought about it.

  John Flavel

  Grateful, Forever, Soul

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 560), 1895.

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