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- The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail van Buren (1918 - )
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too. - John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
- An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
- Sydney J. Harris
- To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
- Robert J. Furey
- Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
- Edward Chapin
- The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
- If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!
- Charles Swindoll
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