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Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a read more
O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]
Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]
It is better to be faithful than famous.
It is better to be faithful than famous.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to read more
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that read more
It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it.
