Thomas Carlyle
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Socrates
"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
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John J. McCloy
"It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them."
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Jules de Goncourt
"Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing."
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Theodore Hesburgh
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother - Readers Digest, January 1963"
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Anthony Trollope
"I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal."
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Seneca
"Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art."
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Andre Gide
"In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
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Charles Caleb Colton
"Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another."
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George Bernard Shaw
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
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