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- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
- Thomas Arnold
- One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
- Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
- Sir Arthur Helps
- We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
- R. W. Dale
- In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
- Barbara Paley
- Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.
- H. M. Tomlinson
- If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
- Horace Bushnell
- The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
- David Viscott
- To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
- Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
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