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- How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
- Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)
- The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
- John Irving (1942 - )
- Our envy of others devours us most of all.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
- Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774)
- Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
- Evelyn Underhill
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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