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- To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
- Charles Buxton
- To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
- Bernard Joseph Saurin
- There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.
- Bishop Hall
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