Quotations About / On: TRUST

  • 41.
    Where from their pulpits sealed with dust
    They preach: 'In greatness is no trust'.
    (Francis Beaumont (1584-1616)(1584-1616), British dramatist, and William Basse (fl. C. 1602), British dramatist. Lines on the Tombs in Westminster (l. 21-22). . . Attributed to Beaumont and to Basse Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 42.
    You can't trust God to be unmerciful.
    There you have the beginning of all wisdom.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "A Masque of Mercy.")
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  • 43.
    Quotations—always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
    (Jean Rostand (1894-1977), French biologist, writer. repr. In The Substance of Man, p. 191 (1962). Carnets d'un Biologiste.)
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  • 44.
    While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden (1854), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 2, p. 145, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 45.
    Oh yet we trust that somehow good
    Will be the final goal of ill!
    (Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. In Memoriam, cto. 54, st. 1 (1850).)
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  • 46.
    In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
    (Norman Mailer (b. 1923), U.S. author. The Presidential Papers, preface (1963).)
  • 47.
    One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
    (E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. "What I Believe," pt. II (1939), in Two Cheers for Democracy (1951).)
  • 48.
    The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.
    (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832), German poet, dramatist. Letter, November 9, 1829, to Karl Friedrich Zelter.)
  • 49.
    A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, February 12, 1843, to Ralph Waldo Emerson, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 57, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 50.
    If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
    My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 5, sc. 1, l. 1-2. In exile, Romeo hopes for good news from Verona.)
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