It is our duty to fight for our freedom._x000D_ It is our duty to win._x000D_ We must love each other and support each other._x000D_ We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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It is our duty to fight for our freedom._x000D_ It is our duty to win._x000D_ We must love each other and support each other._x000D_ We have nothing to lose but our chains.
If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.
Respect your soul: don't keep repeating "I'm going to make it". Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. An obsession does not help you at all to reach your objective, and even ends up taking the pleasure out of the climb. But pay attention: also, don't keep saying "it's harder than I thought", because that will make you lose your inner strength.
We lose many things simply out of our fear of losing them.
I don't lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Keep this in mind, for it is very important advice, so do not neglect it until you find you have such a fixed determination not to offend the Lord that you would rather lose a thousand lives and be persecuted by the whole world, than commit one mortal sin, and until you are most careful not to commit venial sins.
If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him.
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.
I've always tried to tell myself that the work itself is the thing, that win, lose, or draw, the work is really what counts.
But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
I'm before him on my knees, and he kisses me He assumes I lose my reason and I do. Men are stupid, men are vain, Love's disgusting, love's insane, A humiliating business-oh how true.
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.
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