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[Quote No.18273] Need Area: Friends > General
"Malice drinks one half of its own poison." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4 B.C. - 65 A.D.) Roman stoic philosopher
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[Quote No.18274] Need Area: Friends > General
"Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself." - Michel E. de Montaigne
(1533 - 1592) French essayist
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[Quote No.18279] Need Area: Friends > General
"Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice." - Aristotle
(384 B.C. - 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.18280] Need Area: Friends > General
"Man is a political animal." - Aristotle
(384 B.C. - 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.18285] Need Area: Friends > General
"To have known one good old man, one man who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm branch, waving all discords into peace helps our faith... in ourselves, and in each other, more than many sermons. [What you practice is more powerful than what you preach...example is the greatest education.] " - George William Curtis
(1824 - 1892) American author
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[Quote No.18286] Need Area: Friends > General
"He is the wisest and happiest man, who, by constant attention of thought discovers the greatest opportunity of doing good, and breaks through every opposition that he may improve these opportunities." - Philip Doddridge
(1702 - 1751) English divine
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[Quote No.18288] Need Area: Friends > General
"Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings - admiration or pity." - Anatole France
(1844 - 1924) French author
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[Quote No.18298] Need Area: Friends > General
"Man is the measure of all things. [The consequences to all involved need to be considered and valued.]" - Protagoras
(circa 481 B.C. - 411 B.C.) Greek Philosopher
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[Quote No.18299] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not the situation, which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. The slave may be a freeman. The monarch may be a slave. Situations are noble or ignoble, as we make them." - Frederick William Robertson
(1816 - 1853) English divine
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[Quote No.18304] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is easier to polish the manners than to reform the heart, to disguise a fault than to conquer it. He, who can venture to appear as he is, must be what he ought to be, a difficult and arduous task, which often requires the sacrifice of many a darling inclination and the exertion of many a painful effort." - John Bowdler
(1783 - 1815) English author
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[Quote No.18309] Need Area: Friends > General
"Good breeding [behaviour] is the result of much good sense, some good nature, and a little self denial for the sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator and wit
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[Quote No.18390] Need Area: Friends > General
"Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars, not so sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows the whole." - Edwin Hubbell Chapin
(1814 - 1880) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.18391] Need Area: Friends > General
"Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful." - Francis Quarles
(1592 - 1644) English author
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[Quote No.18392] Need Area: Friends > General
"Mercy to him that shows it is the rule." - William Cowper
(1731 - 1800) English poet
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[Quote No.18393] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Poem:]
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.
" - Alexander Pope
(1688 - 1744) English poet
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[Quote No.18394] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nothing emboldens sin [and crime] so much as mercy." - William Shakespeare
in 'Timon of Athens' - Act III. Scene V, (1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.18395] Need Area: Friends > General
"To sin because mercy abounds is the devil's logic... Mercy is not for them that sin and fear not, but for them that fear and sin not." - Thomas J. Watson
17th century English non conformist divine
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[Quote No.18396] Need Area: Friends > General
"Hate shuts her soul when dove eyed Mercy pleads." - Charles Sprague
(1791 - 1875) American poet
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[Quote No.18397] Need Area: Friends > General
"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us..." - Bible-Matthew 6:12
from 'The Lord's Prayer'
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[Quote No.18400] Need Area: Friends > General
"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability." - Confucius
(550 B.C. - 478 B.C.) Chinese moral teacher
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[Quote No.18411] Need Area: Friends > General
"The necessary and wise subordination of the military to civil power [must] be sustained." - Dwight David Eisenhower
(1890 - 1969) 34th U.S. President and Supreme Commander in World War II
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[Quote No.18412] Need Area: Friends > General
"Covenants without swords are but words. [Contracts without explicit consequences for non-performance or delay aren't worth the paper they are written on.]" - Thomas Hobbes
(1588 - 1679), English philosopher
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[Quote No.18413] Need Area: Friends > General
"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution. [Because 'A person convinced against their will, is of the same opinion still!']" - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35th U.S. President
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[Quote No.18464] Need Area: Friends > General
"Crime begins in the mind. A man has to think wrong before he acts wrong." - Unknown
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[Quote No.18480] Need Area: Friends > General
"He that may hinder mischief, yet permits it, is an accessory." - K. A. Freeman
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[Quote No.18502] Need Area: Friends > General
"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues." - Bishop Hall
(circa 1850) American clergy
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[Quote No.18504] Need Area: Friends > General
"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds." - Blaise Pascal
(1623 - 62) French mathematician & philosopher
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[Quote No.18542] Need Area: Friends > General
"If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory." - Agesilaus
(444 B.C. - 360 B.C.) King of Sparta
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[Quote No.18543] Need Area: Friends > General
"They only deserve a monument that do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of men." - William Hazlitt
(1778 - 1830) English critic and author
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[Quote No.18544] Need Area: Friends > General
"Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall." - Edward Young
1683-1765
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[Quote No.18545] Need Area: Friends > General
"Monuments are the grappling irons that bind one generation to another." - Joseph Joubert
(1754 - 1824) French moralist
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[Quote No.18547] Need Area: Friends > General
"There can be no high civility without a deep morality." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet and philosopher
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[Quote No.18548] Need Area: Friends > General
"The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man." - Charles Sumner
(1811 - 1874) American statesman
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[Quote No.18574] Need Area: Friends > General
"He that does good for good's sake, seeks neither praise nor reward...[Virtue is its own reward...giving self-respect.]" - Blaise Pascal
(1623 - 1662) French mathematician and philosopher
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[Quote No.18579] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is motive alone that gives character to the actions of men. [and women]" - Jean de la Bruyere
(1645 - 1696) French essayist and moralist
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[Quote No.18582] Need Area: Friends > General
"Murder itself is past all expiation the greatest crime, which nature doth abhor." - William Goffe
(1605 - 1679) English puritan leader
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[Quote No.18583] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life." - Daniel Webster
(1782 - 1852) American orator and statesman
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[Quote No.18622] Need Area: Friends > General
"A good name, like good will, is attained by many actions and may be lost by one." - Unknown
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[Quote No.18623] Need Area: Friends > General
"A man has three names; the name he inherited, the name his parents gave him, and the name he makes for himself." - Unknown
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[Quote No.18624] Need Area: Friends > General
"Carve your name on hearts, not on marble." - Charles H. Spurgeon
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[Quote No.18625] Need Area: Friends > General
"I love my country too much to be a nationalist." - Albert Camus
(1913 - 1960) French novelist
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[Quote No.18626] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars." - Arthur C. Clarke
(1917 - ) English writer of science fiction
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[Quote No.18627] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism." - Chief Justice Earl Warren
(1891 - 1974) U. S. jurist and Republican politician
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[Quote No.18628] Need Area: Friends > General
"...nationalism...is not favorable to bringing about a world without war." - Norman Mattoon Thomas
(1884 - 1968) U. S. socialist politician
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[Quote No.18639] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets." - Bonaparte Napoleon
(1769 - 1821) French Emperor
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[Quote No.18643] Need Area: Friends > General
"True nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth." - Bruce Burton
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[Quote No.18644] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem." - Jane Porter
(1776 - 1850) English novelist
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[Quote No.18645] Need Area: Friends > General
"...virtue is the only nobility." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4 B.C. - 65 A.D.) Roman stoic philosopher
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[Quote No.18646] Need Area: Friends > General
"Nature's noblemen are everywhere, in town and out of town, gloved and rough handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman." - Nathaniel Parker Willis
(1806 - 1867) American poet and journalist
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[Quote No.18651] Need Area: Friends > General
"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it." - Waldo Emerson
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