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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not
waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-- Jack London

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled
by, And that has made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet

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The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking
part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting
well.

-- Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

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None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.

-- Bertolt Brecht, 1933

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Every man has an obscure respect for courage in others, especially if
it is moral courage, the rarest and most difficult sort of bravery...
It makes the very brute understand that this man is more than a man.

-- Passage from Life of Christ

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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong;
honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like
dead leaves when their time comes.

-- John Ruskin (1819-1900) English Art Critic

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I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find
yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which
no other man can ever know.

-- Joseph Conrad

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The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They
believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to
correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

-- Wang Yang-Ming (1472-1529) Chinese Philosopher

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A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we
ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me
make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!

-- Thomas A. Kempis


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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire
better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to
look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

-- James A. Garfield

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Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never be a
weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting
winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and
forever true.

-- Edward R. Lyman

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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected
without trials.

-- Chinese proverb

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It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty
things I dabble in."

-- Washington Gladden

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Children need models rather than critics.

-- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher
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The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere.
They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

-- Anatole France

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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he
ought to do in circumstances confronting him.

-- St. Thomas Aquinas

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I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing
finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.

-- Frank Knox

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The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of
obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within
and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.

-- William Mather Lewis

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Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment
and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and
cheerfulness.

-- Daniel Webster

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The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless,
unremembered acts of kindness and love.

-- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) English poet

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Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

-- Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist

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Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he
more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the
Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears
dishonor more than death.

-- Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected
of him.

-- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American Novelist

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To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the
same thing.

-- Janet Erskine Stuart

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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or
measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

-- Donald A. Adams

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Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important
ongoing activity.

-- Paul Goodman