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- Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
- Evelyn Underhill
- Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
- Indian Proverb
- So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
- Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.
- Daniel Considine
- Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Don't fall before you're pushed.
- English Proverb
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