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- Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.
- Author Unknown
- Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
- C. C. Colton
- Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.
- Author Unknown
- The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.
- Author Unknown
- There are no office hours for leaders.
- Cardinal James Gibbons
- No punishment of the unrighteous has ever been too severe in the eyes of the righteous.
- Author Unknown
- How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
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