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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Geoffrey F. Abert Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.
    Geoffrey F. Abert
    American author
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • Alfred Adler The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Remy de Gourmont The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Mandell Creighton The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
    Mandell Creighton
    British historian and bishop (1843 - 1901)
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  • Billy Porter There's this misconception that I've been turning down roles. It's just not true. The reality is, there was nothing for me to do, nobody was calling, the phone wasn't ringing.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Elbert Hubbard Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Frederick Douglass We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Bernard Bailyn That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident;
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 132
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Robert Frost "Skepticism", is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, "Well, what have we here?"
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie .. it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Beatrice Webb ... if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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