Bear True Faith

Famous quotes containing the words bear, true and/or faith:

    “Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

    “It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Nelse McLeod: Faith can move mountains Milt, but it can’t beat a faster draw. There’s only three men I know with his kind of speed—one’s dead, the other’s me, and the third is Cole Thornton.
    Cole Thornton: There’s a fourth.
    McLeod: Which one are you?
    Thornton: I’m Thornton.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)