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- Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- 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
- Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
- William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980)
- A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
- Susanne Langer (1895 - 1985)
- Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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