Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLDIf even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
More Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
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Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
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What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body’s total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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It is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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I never discuss discussions.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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The myths have always condemned those who ‘looked back.’ Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
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