"Without friends no one would choose to live."

Aristotle on Friends and Friendship
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"It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing."

Newman, Cardinal J. on Faith
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"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."

Jerome, St. on Friends and Friendship
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"Do what you fear most and you control fear."

Hopkins, Tom on Fear
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"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."

Kierkegaard, Soren on Fear
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

Kierkegaard, Soren on Life and Living
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"What can't be cured must be endured."

Burton, Robert on Medicine
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"Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]"

Bible on Life and Living
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"My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Patriotism
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on Excellence
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"Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits."

James, William on Philosophers and Philosophy
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"Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath."

Bible on Critics and Criticism
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"The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world."

Lewis, C. S. on Evangelism
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"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

Pascal, Blaise on Faith
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"Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. [Proverbs 22:6]"

Bible on Education
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"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Adversity
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"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."

Bible on Anger
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"Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny."

Diana, Princess of Wales on Service
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on Friends and Friendship
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"To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on Persuasion
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"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on Will and Will Power
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"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Lies and Lying
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"Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand."

Bible on Curiosity
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"No cause is helpless if it is just. Errors, no matter how popular, carry the seeds of their own destruction."

Scoville, John W. on Causes
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"It is better to be faithful than famous."

Roosevelt, Theodore on Loyalty
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"By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome"

Proverb on Evil
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"If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards."

Newman, Henry Cardinal on Risk
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"Bad people are less a problem than indifferent people. "

Kocher, Gerhard on Indifference
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"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Friends and Friendship
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"The brave love mercy, and delight to save."

Gay, John on Courage
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"You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to."

Schuller, Robert H. on Change
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"I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. [Acts 10:34]"

Bible on Privilege
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"Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding."

Bible on Wisdom
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"We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Science and Scientists
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"The secret of all good writing is sound judgment."

Horace on Writers and Writing
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"Those who love thy law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble. [Psalms 119:165]"

Bible on Peace
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"He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave."

Drummond, William on Reason
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"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on Action
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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

Walker, Alice on Friends and Friendship
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."

Bacon, Francis on Ability
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