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My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.: Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
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It is said that if Noah's ark had had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)

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