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- This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet
- The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
- Marjorie Holmes
- The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.
- Kabbalah
- What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
- Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991), New York Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 1978
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