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- In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
- Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
- Hermocrates of Syracuse
- Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice.
- George Goethals (1858 - 1928)
- The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
- It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
- See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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