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- Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
- Alexander Hodge
- If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
- William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
- While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- Learn to labour and to wait.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
- Dorothy Thompson (1894 - 1961)
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