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- No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
- Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
- Ernest Dimnet
- The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- Life without the courage for death is slavery.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.
- George Crabbe (1754 - 1832)
- No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
- Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.
- Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)
- One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Peace visits not the guilty mind.
(Nemo Malus Felix) - Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".
- Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
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