Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.

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L. Thomas Holdcroft

The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.

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Bible, Proverbs 15:1 (KJV)

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

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G. K. Chesterton

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.

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James Lane Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

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Charles Dudley Warner

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

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Titus Maccius Plautus, Miles Gloriosus

No man is wise enough by himself.

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Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

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Book of Common Prayer

There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been corrupted.

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Miguel de Cervantes

Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.

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Muriel Spark

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

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