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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like…
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they…
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We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a…
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron,…
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they…
— Frederic Bastiat
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How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be…
— David Hume
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It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has…
— Carl Jung
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In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more…
— Karl Marx
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Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms…
— Virginia Woolf
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The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.
— Alexander Crummell
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...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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