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[Quote No.13817] Need Area: Friends > General "The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom." - Clarence Darrow Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13818] Need Area: Friends > General "Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution." - Kahlil Gibran Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13819] Need Area: Friends > General "Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13848] Need Area: Friends > General "...without kindness there can be no true joy." - Thomas Carlyle Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13853] Need Area: Friends > General "It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude, and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes." - Lord Bacon Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13856] Need Area: Friends > General "If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds." - Joseph Joubert Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13857] Need Area: Friends > General "Liberty must be limited in order to be enjoyed." - Edmund Burke Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13858] Need Area: Friends > General "If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor." - George Stillman Hillard Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13859] Need Area: Friends > General "The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot." - William Ellery Channing Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13860] Need Area: Friends > General "Liberty, without wisdom, is license." - Edmund Burke Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13863] Need Area: Friends > General "He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best..." - James Martineau Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13880] Need Area: Friends > General "A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct." - Jean de La Bruyere French philosopher, moralist and writer (1645-1696) Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13881] Need Area: Friends > General "Good manners are a part of good morals." - George Whatley Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13882] Need Area: Friends > General "Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. They give their whole form and colors to our lives. According to their quality they aid morals, they supply them, or they totally destroy them." - Edmund Burke Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13883] Need Area: Friends > General "Good breeding 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, 4th Earl Chesterfield. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13893] Need Area: Friends > General "Let us be merciful as well as just." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13894] Need Area: Friends > General "...mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice." - Miguel de Cervantes Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13901] Need Area: Friends > General "Every great mind seeks to labour for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good." - Friedrich von Schiller Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13914] Need Area: Friends > General "O Buddha, the worship of thee consists in doing good to the world." - Bhakti Sataka Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13926] Need Area: Friends > General "Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13939] Need Area: Friends > General "Ten men have failed from defect in morals where one has failed from defect in intellect." - Horace Mann Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13940] Need Area: Friends > General "Socrates taught that true felicity [happiness] is not to be derived from external possessions, but from wisdom, which consists in the knowledge and practice of virtue; that the cultivation of virtuous manners is necessarily attended with pleasure as well as profit..." - William Enfield Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13942] Need Area: Friends > General "All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God." - François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire He used the pen-name, Voltaire. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13955] Need Area: Friends > General "Be noble! and the nobleness that lives,
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own." - James Russell Lowell 1819-1891 Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13956] Need Area: Friends > General "Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
'Tis only noble to be good.
" - Alfred Tennyson 1st Baron Tennyson (Lord Tennyson). Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13969] Need Area: Friends > General "Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good actions; try to use ordinary situations." - Jean Paul Richter Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13990] Need Area: Friends > General "...the best government is that which inspires the nobler passions and destroys the meaner." - Hermann Jacobi Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14009] Need Area: Friends > General "He serves his party best, who serves the country best." - Rutherford B. Hayes Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14010] Need Area: Friends > General "The noblest motive is the public good." - Virgil Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14012] Need Area: Friends > General "[Self-Defence and Martial Arts:] There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. [The capacity for a good offence is the best defence]" - George Washington Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14013] Need Area: Friends > General "I never advocated war except as a means of peace." - U.S. Grant Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14014] Need Area: Friends > General "[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] Peace, above all things, is to be desired; but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms." - Andrew Jackson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14029] Need Area: Friends > General "We have a choice to use the gift of our lives to make the world a better place." - Jan Goodall Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14035] Need Area: Friends > General "The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure--that is the choicest of all." - Nathaniel Hawthorne Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14036] Need Area: Friends > General "He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity. [and is virtuous]" - Johann Kaspar Lavater Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14038] Need Area: Friends > General "People should be guarded against temptation to unlawful pleasures by furnishing them the means of innocent ones. In every community there must be pleasures, relaxations, and means of agreeable excitement; and if innocent are not furnished, resort will be had to criminal. Man was made to enjoy as well as labor, and the state of society should be adapted to this principle of human nature." - William Ellery Channing Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14062] Need Area: Friends > General "When two goats met on a bridge which was too narrow to allow either to pass or return, the goat which lay down that the other might walk over it was a finer gentleman than Lord Chesterfield." - Lord David Cecil (Edward Christian David Cecil) English Writer Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14069] Need Area: Friends > General "Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power. [therefore the value of democracy and governments constitutionally limited to not infringe upon unalienable human rights even with a majority.]" - Charles Caleb Colton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14070] Need Area: Friends > General "Even in war, moral power is to physical as three parts out of four." - Napoleon Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.28543] Need Area: Friends > General "We must judge...[political and social] movements, not by the men [and women] who make them, but by the men [and women] they make." - Joseph Cook (1860 - 1947), Prime Minister of Australia in 1913. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14095] Need Area: Friends > General "The liberty of the press is the true measure of all other liberty; for all freedom without this must be merely nominal [in name only]." - Paul Chatfield also known as Horace Smith Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14137] Need Area: Friends > General "A good name is better than precious ointment. [Never do anything that would make reasonable people think less of you. Build and guard your honour and name by impeccable behaviour, that brings admiration and respect to you, your family, your friends and your work.]" - Bible, Ecclesiastes 7:1 Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14141] Need Area: Friends > General "The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be
what you desire to appear. [Don't just try to appear good, try to be good!]" - Socrates Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14142] Need Area: Friends > General "Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." - Thomas Paine Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14154] Need Area: Friends > General "What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14165] Need Area: Friends > General "Never let any man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul! Any other issue is doubtful; the evil effect on himself is certain." - Robert Southey Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14180] Need Area: Friends > General "Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn...unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble." - Thomas Noon Talfourd English dramatist, poet and jurist Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14182] Need Area: Friends > General "The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the pleasures of consciousness and sympathy." - Parke Godwin Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14183] Need Area: Friends > General "Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely, and conciliate those you cannot conquer." - Charles Caleb Colton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.14211] Need Area: Friends > General "Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. [No-one is perfect...everyone makes inadvertent mistakes occasionally and these should be forgiven - especially when the other is contrite and has tried to make restitution.]" - William Makepeace Thackeray Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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