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A random selection of fabulous
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Quotations from Famous People - 113
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Thomas Jefferson
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
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Henry Clay
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
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Jane O\'Reilly
Maybe the greatest challenge now is to find a way to keep independence while also committing ourselves to the ties that bind people, families, and ultimately societies together.
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Thomas a Kempis
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
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Seneca, 65 AD
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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Thomas Carlyle
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an impossible combination?
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Seneca
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
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Frederick Henry Hedge
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
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