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"Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline."
- William L. Shirer (1904 - 1993)
American Journalist and Historian
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"None will improve your lot If you yourself do not."
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
German poet
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
American essayist
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"What we need to discover now in the social realm is the moral equivalent of war; something heroic that will speak to man as universally as war does, and yet will be as compatible with their spiritual selves as war has proved to be incompatible."
- William James (1842 - 1910)
American Philosopher and Psychologist
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"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."
- James Freeman Clarke (1810 - 1888)
American Unitarian Minister and Author
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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 (1225 - 1274)
Italian Dominican friar
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"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
- Nicholas Murray Butler (1862 - 1947)
American philosopher
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"To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well."
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
English Author
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"Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions, not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy, but forming and informing them as art."
- Allan Bloom (1930 - 1992)
American Academic and Author
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"Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint."
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
American Presbyterian Minister
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