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- It is often easier to fight for one's principles that to live up to them.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
- Erik H. Erikson
- Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.
- Author Unknown
- I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.
- M. Henry
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.
- C. C. Colton
- For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"
"Only the village druggist," was the answer. "And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman. "Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you." - Author Unknown
- Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.
- Author Unknown
- The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
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