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• Together we knew toil, joy and pain. My fervent wish is that the nine of us who were united in face of death should remain fraternally united through life.

  Maurice Herzog

  Pain, Climbing, Joy

  Maurice Herzog (2011). “Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8,000-Meter Peak”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Important, Firsts

  William Carey (1792). “An Enquiry Into the Obligations of Christians, to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens: In which the Religious State of the Different Nations of the World, the Success of Former Undertakings, and the Practicability of Further Undertakings are Considered,”, p.77

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• It is easy to infuse a most fervent devotion into others, even in a short time; but the great matter is - to persevere.

  Philip Neri

  Matter, Persevere, Devotion

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.44, St Athanasius Press

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• True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Selfish, Love Is, Generosity

  Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf

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• We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Belief, Disagreement

  Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.

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• The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator. Yet we know that it is not so. In reality the rocks are less enduring than man. Each man's personal self will still survive for weal or woe, when another catastrophe shall have utterly changed the surface of this planet, and the elements shall have melted with fervent heat, and the earth also and all things that are therein shall have been burnt up.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Reality, Men, Rocks

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• If you do not feel a fervent love and profound pity for humanity, be assured that the gift of Christian eloquence has been denied you. You will not win souls, neither will you acquire that most excellent of earthly sovereignties - sovereignty over human hearts....Love is irresistible.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Heart, Winning

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• The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Betrayal, Evil, May

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• Adoration is not some fervent spiritual or poetic exercise reserved for a chosen few. I believe the human race will die out and destroy nature if it does not learn again how to adore God, the God in all of us, God shining and living in nature, and learn again how to act from and in that spirit of adoration.

  Andrew Harvey

  Spiritual, Believe, Exercise

  Andrew Harvey (1994). “Dialogues with a Modern Mystic”, Quest Books

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• The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fashion, Lists, Heat

  Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard (1860). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser”, p.323

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• Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

  Hadewijch

  Grieving, Encounters

  Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.93, Paulist Press

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• There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Strong, Commitment

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a very fervent kind of civil rights art course, not altogether art history. It wasn't altogether theory. She called it an action course.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Teaching, Rights

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I would say this, I'll go back to those black ladies I was talking about who love them some Barack and love Michelle even more - and by the way, they are not middle-aged anymore, because I'm now middle-aged. So they're a little bit older. As fervent as they were, as excited and happy as they were when I was elected, they had to go to work the next morning. They still had trouble paying those bills. They might have still had a son who was in trouble with the law or couldn't get a job because of a felony record. They didn't stop being grounded.

  Barack Obama

  Morning, Jobs, Son

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God. If at times we are somewhat stunned by the tempest, never fear. Let us take breath, and go on afresh.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Trust, Heart, Long

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• Our aim is to appeal to reason. … Prayer is not one of our remedies; it depends on what one is praying for. We consider prayer nothing more than a fervent wish; consequently the merit and worth of a prayer depend upon what the fervent wish is.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Prayer, Wish, Merit

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• My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Prayer, Boys

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.417, Best Books on

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• The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

  George Will

  Essence, Liberty, Democracy

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff. This was the first wave of political correctness. The editors of the staff members came and said he must - he must, from now on, stop using `freshmen' and - in-as part of the policy of the paper. It had to be `freshperson.' Therefore, you don't - you're not discriminating against males or females. They were very fervent about that, and he was equally fervent about not politicizing language. So until he left, `freshmen' stayed.

  Nat Hentoff

  Editors, Political, Males

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Christian, Prayer, Fire

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 192, 1895.

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• These people [supporters] are fervent. They are really want to see positive things happen for our country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, People, Want

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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  The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

  James Monroe

  Country, Prayer, Liberty

  James Monroe, Ian Elliot, United States. President (1817-1825 : Monroe) (1969). “James Monroe, 1758-1831: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect.

  George Washington

  Would Be, Firsts, Aids

  George Washington, William Jackson (1838). “Monuments of Washington's Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.10

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• Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desires of the best and wisest of the species.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Believe, Men, Stupidity

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