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- The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
- The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1839
- Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
- Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973), Reflections on America, 1958
- It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'On Giving,' The Prophet, 1923
- The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.
- The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873
- A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
- There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
- Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), address to the nation, November 28, 1963
- Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950
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