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When you love someone so deeply they become your life, it's easy to succumb to overwhelming fears inside, blindly I imagined I could keep you under glass, now I understand to hold you I must open my hands, and watch you rise.
mariah carey— Butterfly>, 1997. Written from the perspective of Carey’s ex-husband, Tommy Mottola.
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
benjamin n. cardozo— Roberts v. New York, 295 U.S. 264, 278 (1935).
Did I not tell you that whenever you argue with the Queen she is sure to have the upper hand?! I see that one fine morning you will succumb to her reasoning and cast me off!
catherine of aragon— Anne Boleyn — quoted in Alison Weir (1991). The Six Wives of Henry VIII. ISBN 0802136834, p. 213.
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
harriet martineau— Women, vol. 3, Society in America (1837)
Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.
william makepeace thackeray— The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Ch. 13.
Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.
carl jung— p. 25 (Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960))
Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.
— Benjamin N. Cardozo, Roberts v. New York, 295 U.S. 264, 278 (1935).
