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Quote by Leonard Cohen
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be mor

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. – Leonard Cohen

Other quotes by Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. – Leonard Cohen

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Sleep
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Leonard Cohen
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I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and hes written poetry then let the verdict be that hes a poet. – Leonard Cohen

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Poetry
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Faith
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We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured. – Blaise Pascal

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Faith

That someone like Obama could be elected president of the United States – with its unrivaled power and prestige – has begun to restore the countrys and the worlds faith in America as the land of opportunity. – Dee Dee Myers

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Faith

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. – William Ames

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Faith

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. – Richard Linklater

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Faith

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Slow and steady wins the race. – Aesop

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If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and Ill say it. – John Lennon

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No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power. – James Cash Penney

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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. – Bill Veeck

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