Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
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In passing winds it drowns,
But breathes, like perfect joys,
... FREDERICK TENNYSON We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same que... FREDERICK KEONIG I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are ... FREDERICK PERLS In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ar... FREDERICK BUECHNER A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicio... FREDERICK POLLOCK What would it profit thee to be the first
Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,
A thi... FREDERICK TENNYSON Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. FREDERICK SMITH The only real failure in life is the failure to try. FREDERICK SMITH Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a... FREDERICK SODDY Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. FREDERICK SANGER My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small Am... FREDERICK REINES After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advan... FREDERICK SANGER As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo... FREDERICK WEISEL Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles... FREDERICK BUECHNER