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- It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
- Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
- I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
- Cato
- There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
- Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, "there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it." A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
- Tom Blair
- He is great who confers the most benefits.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
- Johann Von Schiller
- There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.
- Richard Bach
- The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
- Thomas Aquinas
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