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- Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
- The Belzer Rabbi
- In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
- Sir George Savile, 'Advice to a Daughter,' 1688
- When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.
- Josiah Quincy
- How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'The First Part of King Henry the IV'
- If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.
- Sefer Hasidim
- Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
- Thomas Tusser, 1524
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
- Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)
- Don't let the bastards grind you down.
- General Joseph W. Stilwell (1883 - 1946), Motto
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