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Which Quotes by Albert Schweitzer
- The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
- One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
- Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
- Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
- Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not…
- A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring…
- The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that…
- Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live…
- Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the…
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