"Stand firm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... always comes from "the hardening of the heart." But youth has some fantastic as well as some noble dreams, so that docility is a better quality than independence in a very young person. If a worldly minded mother inculcates worldliness in her daughter, the daughter certainly ought to stand firm against the teaching; but if the daughter merely thinks she would rather read Browning than go to a party which her mother wishes her to attend, I think it is best for her to go to the party, even if she is conscious that her mother's motive is a worldly one. I speak only of young daughters. If ...
— Girls and Women • Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}
... thus, We'll die where we were born—in our own halls[x] Serry your ranks—stand firm. I have despatched A trusty satrap for the guard of Zames, All fresh and faithful; they'll be here anon. All is not over,—Pania, look to Myrrha. [PANIA returns ...
— The Works of Lord Byron - Poetry, Volume V. • Lord Byron
... knew then there was no more politics to practice—just law enough to be found to let the court stand firm when ...
— The Dead Men's Song - Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its - Author Young Ewing Allison • Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
... "And you stand firm before me as before the enemy," said the Cardinal; "you will have no cause to regret it in the end, my ...
— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny
... all the mothers in England permit their daughters to romp and wrestle in public, and call it waltzing, I must stand firm till they ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
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