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- To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)
- Anonymous
- Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.
- Anonymous
- Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere! Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here. - Sir Thomas More (1478 - 1535)
- Music like religion, unconditionally brings in its train all the moral virtues to the heart it enters, even though that heart is not in the least worthy.
- Jean Baptiste Montegut
- History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
- James A. Forude
- Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade: A breath can make them, as a breath has made; but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. - Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835)
- In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
- Lydia Sigourney
- The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
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