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Results from Poor Man's College:

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?: Alfred A. Montapert
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.: A. J. Toynbee
Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.: Tyron Edwards
Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.: Madame Guizot
A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.: South
It is never too late with us, so long as we are aware of our faults and bear them impatiently.: Jacobi
A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient if it produce amendment, and the greatest insufficient if it do not.: C. C. Colton
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

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