"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."

Sala, George on conversation   

"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on criticism   

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on criticism
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on difficulties
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"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"

Thoreau, Henry David on education
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"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."

Proverb, African on enemies
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"Those who endure conquer."

Motto on endurance
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"What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do."

Gillies, Jerry on joy   

"Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation."

Lucado, Max L. on faith
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"A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted."

Rogers, Adrian on faith
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"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on failure
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"Some defeats are only installments to victory."

Riis, Jacob on failure   

"Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison."

Arnold, Sir Edwin on freedom
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"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade."

Gracian, Baltasar on friends and friendship   

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

Dickens, Charles on worth
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."

Boom, Corrie Ten on worry
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"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."

Vico, Giambattista on consensus   

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."

Lincoln, Abraham on commonplace   

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

Cass, Lewis on action
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"Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away."

Thalheimer, Richard on action
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"Adversity is the first path to truth."

Byron, Lord on adversity   

"You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these."

Virgil on adversity
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"The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune."

Proverb, English on age and aging   

"American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams."

Iyer, Pico on america
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"Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding."

Gide, Andre on argument   

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

Churchill, Winston on art
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"Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are."

Bristol, Claude M. on belief
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"I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep."

Borrow, George on politics   

"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."

Erasmus, Desiderius on books - reading
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"The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading."

Mencken, H. L. on books - reading   

"Boredom is the root of all evil--the despairing refusal to be oneself."

Kierkegaard, Søren on bores and boredom
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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Bacon, Francis on certainty
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"If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you."

Torrey, R. A. on christians and christianity
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"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."

Fry, Christopher on comedy and comedians
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"The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear."

Kennedy, John F. on voting   

"The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."

Sallust on virtue   

"The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends."

Johnson, Samuel on value