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Quotes About Fair

Alas, if must your great affairs be done, Know that fair means increase your servants vigor: Hearts by unpleasing checks are never won, And willingness is not enlarged by rigor.
~ WILLIAM BASSE
Underneath this sable hearseLies the subject of all verse:Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother.Death, ere thou hast slain anotherFair and learned and good as she,Time shall throw a dart at thee.
~ William Browne
"Fair and foul are near of kin,And fair needs foul," I cried."My friends are gone, but that's a truthNor grave nor bed denied."
~ William Butler Yeats
A fair field full of folk found I there.
~ William Langland
Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.
~ Charles Kingsley
I think God is a pretty fair guy, so tithing is a pretty fair process.
~ Neil Cavuto
The soul whose bosom lust did never touch Is God's fair bride; and maiden's souls are such.
~ Tertullian
All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.
~ John Stuart Blackie
A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't
~ William Shakespeare
All our clients know that we're there, we're steady, we do a good job, we earn a fair return for ourselves, which I think is critical.
~ Jamie Dimon
China's idea of fair trade is government subsidies of its textile and apparel exports to the United States, currency manipulation, and forgiveness of loans by its government banks.
~ Virginia Foxx
A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.
~ Charlie Munger
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
~ A. E. Housman
It is up to each voter to evaluate honesty and competency in a factual, therefore fair way.
~ Bill O'Reilly
For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all.
~ Polybius
The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions.
~ Noam Chomsky
And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
~ John Dryden
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
~ Charles Dickens
If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!
~ James Montgomery
Sometimes the most genuine thing you can do is share your internal struggle to cast them in a more positive role. You can say something like, "The story I'm telling in my head about what is going on is that you are being inconsiderate. At some level I know that's unfair to you, and I need you to help me put things in better perspective. I need you to help me understand where you are coming from on this.
~ Douglas Stone
Focusing on blame is a bad idea because it inhibits our ability to learn what's really causing the problem and to do anything meaningful to correct it. And because blame is often irrelevant and unfair. The urge to blame is based, quite literally, on a misunderstanding of what has given rise to the issues between you and the other person, and on the fear of being blamed.
~ Douglas Stone
It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man. His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.
~ Edith Pattou
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.
~ Edmund Burke