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• To live beneath sorrow, one must yield to it.

  Madame de Stael

  Sadness, Sorrow

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• Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.

  Jules Michelet

  Men, Too Much, Obedience

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• To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Rights, Support, Heaven

  "Lutrin". Chant I. 185,

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• This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking. It is a war thrust upon us and we cannot yield to tyranny.

  Francis Spellman

  War, Believe, Civilization

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• Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

  Thomas Brooks

  Faith, Heaven, Hereafter

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.107

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• It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Gun, Violence, May

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• The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

  Zeno of Elea

  Rain, Men, Dew

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• You can stick with a few clear-cut values, which are stronger than a multitude of values and will obviously yield a stronger painting. But not all subjects or light conditions appear that way... be sensible and paint with values that are appropriate and faithful to your subject.

  Richard Schmid

  Cutting, Light, Faithful

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• Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

  Paul Gauguin

  Nature, Essence, Wish

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• The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

  Odilon Redon

  Artist, Spirit, Stimulus

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• When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

  Euripides

  Flames, Giving, Storm

  Euripides (1835). “Euripides :in Three Volumes”, p.179

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• The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.

  William Gurnall

  Sweet, Trying, Cows

  William Gurnall (2015). “Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.240, Moody Publishers

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• My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Thinking, Enlightenment

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• At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Heart, Men

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• It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Harmony, Should

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Gold, Thieves

  William Shakespeare, J. M. Nosworthy (2000). “Cymbeline: Second Series”, p.56, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.

  Eric Hoffer

  Meaningful, Men, Skills

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Charity, May

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1049, Wordsworth Editions

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• The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise, it can be experienced.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Morning, Sunrise, Doe

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• I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Strong, Army

  "Mémorial de Sainte Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, Part 4" by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases, (p. 133), 1823.

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• We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, Land, Fields

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Retirement, War, Keys

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• If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taxation, Taxes, Revenue

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.46

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• Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Teaching, Knowledge, Mind

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• Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

  Euripides

  Wise, Fate, Men

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