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- A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
- People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth.
- Richard Whately
- The only atheism is the denial of truth.
- Arthur Lynch
- According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.
- Charles Richter
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