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- The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.
- Boerhaave
- You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
- John Macy
- The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann
- It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
- Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
- He is great who confers the most benefits.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
- Johann Von Schiller
- There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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