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- Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
- Mary Shelly
- Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Genius is nothing but labor and diligence.
- William Hogarth
- There are persons who always find a hair in their plate or soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.
- Christian Friedrich Hebbel
- Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problems of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.
- Robert Chapman
- He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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