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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
Author: Charles Dickens
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. XII)
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Thou givest life and love for Greece and Right:
I will stand by thee lest thou shouldst be weak,
Not weak of soul.--I will but hold in sight
Thy marvelous beauty.--Here is
She you seek!
Author: William James Linton
Source: Iphigenia at Aulis
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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 896)
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (pt. II, l. 336)
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Pleas'd to the last he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 83)
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Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
[Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Agamemnon (287)
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
[Lat., Poscunt fidem secunda, at adversa exigunt.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Agamemnon (934)
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O, where is loyalty?
If it be banished from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part II (King Henry at V, i)
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You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant!
But yet you draw not iron, for my heart
Is true as steel.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena at II, i)
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To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay
Till the end o' the daay
An the last load hoam.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: The Promise of May (act II), a song
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To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
Author: Bill Vaughan
Source: Rules and Lessons (st. 8)
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I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.
Author: Grace Paley
Source: None
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An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
Author: Sacha Guitry
Source: None
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Source: None
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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
Author: Ellen Key
Source: None
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FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
Author: James Parton
Source: None
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Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
Author: Ida Ross Wylie
Source: None
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My twin and I
were wombmates
and then roommates.
Some day our bodies
will be tombmates.
(as their souls will be together
with those of their husbands in paradise).
Author: Clara Taipale
Source: None
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Author: Cicero
Source: None
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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.
Author: Giuseppe Mazzini
Source: None
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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.
Author: Seneca
Source: None
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It is better to be faithful than famous.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Source: None
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