I would not enter on my list of friends_x000D_ _x000D_ (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,_x000D_ _x000D_ Yet wanting sensibility) the man_x000D_ _x000D_ Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
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I would not enter on my list of friends_x000D_ _x000D_ (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,_x000D_ _x000D_ Yet wanting sensibility) the man_x000D_ _x000D_ Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.
Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
If you want to build a boat, do not instruct the men to saw wood, stitch the sails, prepare the tools and organize the work, but make them long for setting sail and travel to distant lands.
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.
I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
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