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- Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
- This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
- Hortense Calisher
- That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.
- Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)
- [Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
- Michael Hanson
- It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
- George Sand (1804 - 1876)
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