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Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to… — Sojourner Truth
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence.… — Horace Mann
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties… — Charles William Eliot
No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and… — Saint John Chrysostom
If you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that… — Mother Teresa
Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate… — George Sand
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion… — Albert Einstein
The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt. — George Santayana
Human nature is so constructed that it gives affection most readily to those who seem least to demand it. — Bertrand Russell
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing. — W. Somerset Maugham
The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness; her state is like the things above the moon, always clear and serene. — Michel de Montaigne
Most of what we take as being important is not material, whether it's music or feelings or love. They're things we can't really see or… — Judy Collins
Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the notion with considerable… — Tom Robbins
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell… — Marquis de Sade
The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do… — Samuel Pepys
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is… — Rainer Maria Rilke
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be… — John Donne
Most people like to believe something is or is not true. Great scientists tolerate ambiguity very well. They believe the theory enough to go ahead;… — Richard Hamming
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… — Freeman Dyson
The most dangerous thing is illusion. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book… — William Butler Yeats
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's… — Fran Lebowitz
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more… — Robert Southey

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