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- Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.
- Martin Luther (1483 - 1546)
- Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
- Madam Guizot
- Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.
- William Blackstone (1723 - 1780)
- The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
- William Carleton
- If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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