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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in… — Thomas Aquinas
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is the main earthly business of a human being to make his home, and the immediate surroundings of his home, as symbolic and significant… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his own property. When he chooses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain,… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
Every man, for the sake of the great blessed Mother in Heaven, and for the love of his own little mother on earth, should handle… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. — Walter Lippmann
Every one in his own house and God in all of them. — Miguel de Cervantes
Every scientist, through personal study and research, completes himself and his own humanity. ... Scientific research constitutes for you, as it does for many, the… — Pope John Paul II
Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving… — Augustus Toplady
The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his… — Elijah Muhammad
If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is… — Alfred Tarski
The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility… — John of Shanghai and San Francisco
A virtuous man concentrates on his own work, not that of others. — Zengzi
In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner. — Oscar Handlin
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when… — Theodore Beale
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own… — Ludwig Feuerbach
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of… — C.S. Lewis
If this is your God, he's not very impressive. He has so many psychological problems; he's so insecure. He demands worship every seven days. He… — Gene Roddenberry
The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his… — Albert Schweitzer
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own. — Unknown Author
He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a… — Paul Klee
For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and absolutely, called God, or named… — Irenaeus of Lyons

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