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- Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940)
- The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
- We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
- Robert South
- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
- The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
- Johnson
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