"If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them."- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) English philosopher
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"If a man be gracious to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and his heart is no island, cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins them."- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626) English philosopher
"The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts."- Anatole France (1844 - 1924) French poet
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. - Maya Angelou
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"My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack."- Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929) Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in 1918
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"Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end."- Earl Douglas Haig (1861 - 1928) British General and Commander of the Expeditionary Force in World War I
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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962) The longest serving First Lady of the United States
"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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"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman."- Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696) French philosopher and moralist, who was noted for his satire.
"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 (1857 - 1924) Polish-British writer
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor."- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Scottish Novelist
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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
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Lord Tennyson