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- Property left to a child may soon be lost; but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.
- William Graham Sumner (1840 - 1910)
- I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".
- Robert Millikan (1868 - 1953)
- I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- There is an art of which every man should be a master the art of reflection. If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?
- William Hart Coleridge
- Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.
- Lawrence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
- A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
- Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC)
- The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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