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- Every mile is two in winter.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
- Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
- The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our lives.
- Sri Madhava
- The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
- John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
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