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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Seneca the Younger

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Modesty Repeat Time
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Conscience Foundation Joy True
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Congratulations Success Think
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Greatness Men Resolution
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Leadership Love Rule
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Medicine Men Search Sick
If you wish to be loved, love.
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Country Emotion Life Love People Person
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Doubt Hope Wise
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Distress Fellow Man
Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Freedom Integrity Responsibility
That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Cause Loss Negligence
Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Affection Coal Squares
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Courage Fall Wisdom

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

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