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It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be man of merit. Horace Birth is nothing where virtue is not. Jean-Baptiste Molière Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. François de Voltaire

Anybody can become angry – that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy. Aristotle The dove loves when it quarrels; the … Continue reading “ANGER,
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. Honoré de Balzac Amusement to an observing mind is study. Benjamin Disraeli You can’t live on amusement. It is the froth on … Continue reading “AMUSEMENT”

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He suffered from paralysis by analysis. Author unknown

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. The Bible, Judges 21:25 kjv

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to adulthood, and the measure of civilization. Calvin Coolidge I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. … Continue reading “WORK”

We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God. James Madison

You can have anything you want – if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. Abraham Lincoln

It is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you. Woodrow Wilson