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John Locke English philosopher (1632-1704)	The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

	Act in haste and liniment at leisure.

Richter	Only actions give to life its strength, as only moderation gives its charm.

Emerson	Every noble activity makes room for itself.

Thomas Carlyle Scottish born English author (1795-1881)	Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

	If you would know what your children are doing, find where the action is.

	The acts of this life are the destiny of the next.

Phrygian stoic philosopher (c.50-138)	In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but, rather, our inward opinions and principles.

Plutarch Greek essayist & biographer (c.46-c.120)	It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and makes it either good or bad.

Adelaide Procter	Dreams grow holy put in action ...

William Wordsworth English writer	Action is transitory, -- a step, a blow; The motion of a muscle, this way or that.

Phrygian stoic philosopher (c.50-138)	The materials of action are variable, but the use we make of them should be constant.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature.

Disraeli	Experience is the child of the thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.

Disraeli	Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld French writer & moralist (1613-80)

J. R. Lowell, pseudonym James Russell American poet, critic & editor (1819-91)	Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Marcus Aurelius Roman Emporer (121-180)	Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

Marcus Aurelius Roman Emporer (121-180)	A due sense of value and proportion should regulate the care bestowed on every action.

Lewis Morris	Life is to act, and not to do is death.

Alfred Lord Tennyson English poet (1809-92)	I myself must mix with action, lest I wither by despair.

Sophocles Greek tragic poet (c.496 BC-c.406 BC)	Heaven ne'er helps the man who will not act.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Action is eloquence.

Bishop Thomas Wilson	If we would really know our heart, let us impartially view our actions.

Cato	The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

John Fletcher	Great actions speak great minds.

William Hazlitt English essayist & orator (1778-1830)	Great acts grow out of great occasions and great occasions spring from great principles, working changes in society, and tearing it up by the roots.

Wendell Phillips American reformer and orator (1811-84)	What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

Thomas Fuller English clergyman & author (1608-61)	Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

	Plant a thought and you harvest an act.

Sophocles Greek tragic poet (c.496 BC-c.406 BC)	One must learn by doing the thing.

John Fletcher	Our acts our angels are, good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Alexander Pope English poet & satirist (1688-1744)	Not always actions show the man; we find Who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

John Dryden English poet, dramatist & critic (1631-1700)	Prodigious actions may as well be done. By weaver's issue, as by prince's son.

Bacon	Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done.

Livy	Adversity reminds men of religion.

Old Testament: Proverbs

	One virtue of adversity is the way it fills church pews.

Publilius Syrus	Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

	Bless this food to our use; and, us to thy service.

Seneca Stoic Roman writer & statesman	Behold a thing worthy of God, a brave man matched in the conflict with adversity.

	The waves of adversity shatter on the rocks of courage.

Seneca Stoic Roman writer & statesman	Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

	Advice is like mushrooms; consuming the wrong kind might prove fatal.

Aesop	Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

	How many Doctors of Advice take their own medicine?

Leonardo da Vinci	No counsel is more trustworthy than that which is given upon ships in peril.

	Free advice may prove the costliest kind.

	Always remember the advisor to kings who died a pauper.

	How many people who offer good advice would benefit if you took it?

	The hardest thing is to say "no", but the same end can be accomplished by taking the matter under advisement.

	Being told things for our own good never does us any.

	There is a lot of hope for the man who has courage to refuse unasked advice.

	How we do admire the wisdom of those who come to us for advice!

	A good scare will often help a man more than good advice.

	Free advice is the kind that costs you nothing unless you act upon it.

Marie Dressler	No vice is as bad as advice.

Swift	How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning?

Addison	When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

Aulus Gellius	Bad counsel confounds the adviser.

Bacon	Ask counsel of both times: of the ancient times what is best; and of the latter time what is fittest.

Ambrose Bierce	Advice: the smallest current coin.

Byron	Good but rarely came from good advice.

Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield English statesman, diplomat & author (1694-1773)	Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

Thomas Fuller English clergyman & author (1608-61)	He that will not be counselled cannot be helped.

Marcus Tillius Cicero Roman orator, politician & philosopher (106-43 BC)	Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

C. C. Colton	We ask advice, but we mean approbation.

John Dryden English poet, dramatist & critic (1631-1700)	They first condemn that first advis'd the ill.

Erasmus	No gift is more precious than good advice.

Marcus Tillius Cicero Roman orator, politician & philosopher (106-43 BC)	Dare to give true advice with all frankness.

Lord Halifax	If a man loves to give advice, it is a sure sign that he himself wanteth it.

Schiller	One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

Robert Herrick	Know when to speak -- for many times it brings Danger, to give the best advice to kings.

Goethe	To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

Samuel Johnson	Advice is offensive ... because it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

Oscar Wilde	It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

Publilius Syrus	Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.

Aeschylus	It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

Coleridge	Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Horace Latin poet (65 BC-8 BC)	Whatever advice you give, be brief.

Samuel Johnson	Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

W. R. Alger	We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Benjamin Franklin	They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld French writer & moralist (1613-80)	It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

Churton Collins	To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Helvetius	Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Shaftesbury	Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of another.

Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld French writer & moralist (1613-80)	One gives nothing so liberally as advice.

Livy	In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.

Lucian	Slow-footed counsel is much the best, for swift counsel ever drags repentance behind it.

Phaedrus	It is the part of a fool to give advice to others; and, not himself be on his guard.

Plautus	Advice has greater strength coming from divine sources.

John Ray	Advice when most needed is least heeded.

Samuel Richardson	Advice comes too late when a thing is done.

Seneca Stoic Roman writer & statesman	To one who knows, it is superfluous to give advice; to one who does not know, it is insufficient.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	When a wise man give thee better counsel, give me mine again.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Direct not him whose way himself will choose: 'Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose.

Solon	In giving advice, seek to help, not to please, your friend.

	A fool's ambition is a clever man's opportunity.

	He's a wise man who knows the limits at which ambition ceases to be a virtue.

	Low deeds too often go hand in hand with low ambitions.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort...

	The different branches of arithmetic: Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision.

	The miracle drug strong enough to cure avarice and ambition has yet to be discovered.

	Today's light ambition could prove tomorrow's heavy burden.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	I charge ye, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels.

Spinoza	Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

	There's very little you can do when a window shade loses its ambition.

	A comedian's ambition is to be healthy, wealthy, and wise-cracking.

	Many great men come from small towns, but you can't tell whether it's because of ambition or gossip.

	That itching sensation some people mistake for ambition is merely inflammation of the wishbone.

	The ambitious man always enlists the aid of those twin brothers, Pull and Push.

	To be sitting on top of the world isn't such a hot ambition. Consider the polar bear.

	Early ambition counts. Many a boy who longed to be a pirate is now a successful politician.

Sir Philip Sidney	Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

	Some with ambitions to purify politics might start by getting out of politics.

	Devotion to duty is a fire that warms, but worldly ambition is a fire that consumes.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger.

Alfred Lord Tennyson English poet (1809-92)	Ambition is like the sea wave, which the more you drink The more you thirst.

Benjamin Franklin	Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

Dykes	Look not too high, Lest a chip fall in your eye.

Bacon	He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers, is the decay of the whole age.

Haydon	When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Corneille	Ambition aspires to descend.

Landor	Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked.

	The world will never disarm until disambitioned.

Denham	Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.

	A thing of beauty is usually coy forever.

Keats	Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

	The most powerful enemy of old age is beauty of the soul.

	Still, billboard people have a sense of beauty or they couldn't pick out the best views to obstruct.

	This thing of judging beauty Is mighty pleasant duty.

	A dancer says sleeping out of doors makes one beautiful. That explains the charming appearance of the town drunk.

Ernest Holmes	To develop within ourselves an appreciation of the beautiful and colorful is to have an awareness of the Presence of God.

John Greenleaf Whittier	Behold in the bloom of apples And the violets in the sward A hint of the old, lost beauty Of the Garden of the Lord.

Charlotte Hunt	For beauty is a balm, powerful to heal as any medicine, working like a gentle and soothing emulsion upon weary hearts, tense nerves, and tired organs and muscles.

	In beauty there is no status quo.

	To my wonderful team who every day weave my safety net

Marie Stopes	You can take no credit for beauty at 16. But if you are beautiful at 60, it will be your own soul's doing.

Matilda Bethnam-Edwards	The beautiful is as useful as the useful, and sometimes more so.

	Too many women think the most important factor in beauty is Max.

	An eminent painter says women are steadily growing more beautiful. Why not? They've been working on it thousands of years.

	The artist who says there's no beauty in straight lines has never seen a baseball describing one over second base.

	A critic says that in viewing the works of modern artists one should look for beauty of color, form and brilliant drawing. Guess there's no harm in looking.

	The most interesting beauty contest results are those printed in the wedding notices.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	He thought it happier to be dead, To die for beauty, than live for bread.

Gay	In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.

Gibbon	Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Pascal	If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter, it would have changed the history of the world.

de l'Enclos	That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

Bacon	The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Spencer	The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin-deep saying.

Zimmerman	Beauty is often worse than wine; intoxicating both the holder and beholder.

T. Adams	Beauty is like an almanac; if it lasts a year it is well.

J. M. Barrie	It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

Dickinson	Beauty is not caused, It is.

Alexander Pope English poet & satirist (1688-1744)	In wit, as nature, what affects our hearts Is not th' exactness of peculiar parts; 'Tis not a lip or eye we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Capito	Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; If lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.

Browning	Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.

Oscar Wilde	It is better to be beautiful than to be good, But it is better to be good than ugly.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

	Brevity is the best lever for lifting the burden of having nothing to say.

Bret Harte	Brief words, when actions wait, are well.

	The good speaker knows that brevity is the soul of quit.

	The man who's brief avoids much grief.

	A visit to be beach should convince any man there's beauty in brevity.

	If brevity has its limits, the swim suit people haven't found it yet.

	Usually when a fellow says, "Well, to make a long story short," it's too late.

	No one objects to what you say, if you say it in a few words.

	Brevity is the child of silence, and is a credit to its parentage.

Apocrypha: Ecclesiasticus	Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.

Horace Latin poet (65 BC-8 BC)	There is need of brevity that the thought may run on.

New Testament: James	Let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay.

Santayana	As man is now constituted, to be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

Marcus Tillius Cicero Roman orator, politician & philosopher (106-43 BC)	Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Tryon Edwards	Have something to say; say it, and stop when you've done.

Sydney Smith	Brevity to writing is what charity is to all other virtues; righteousness is nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.

Henry David Thoreau American author/naturalist (1817-62)	Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

	Nowadays a businessman is judged by the company he keeps from folding.

	Don't worry if a business rival imitates you. He can't pass as long as he's following your tracks.

	To lamp lighters: our leaders who light the way for all of us

Management Briefs	A businessman, like a politician, must learn to read the public's silence. In business it is the customer's silence that is eloquent.

	In business, as in hiking, one step won't take you very far. You've got to keep walking.

Plautus	Good merchandise finds a ready buyer.

	When a fellow tries to mix business with pleasure, ninety-nine times out of a hundred pleasure comes out on top.

	The businessman who would leave footprints in the sands of time must wear work shoes.

Madame de Giradin	Business is other people's money.

	Some business concerns are so sound that not even television advertising can hurt them.

	He who has the habit of smiling at the cash register instead of the customer won't be smiling long.

Mark Twain	There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate; when he can't afford it and when he can.

Walter Dill Scott	Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.

Ferdinand S. Schenk	If the Golden Rule is to be preached at all in these modern days, when so much of our life is devoted to business, it must be preached specially in its application to the conduct of business.

Addison	There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.

G. B. Shaw	Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst.

George Chapman	Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee.

Benjamin Franklin	Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

	A successful businessman is one who always gets up one more time than he falls.

Horace Latin poet (65 BC-8 BC)	I attend to the business of other people, having lost my own.

Joseph R. Grundy	The "tired business man" is one whose business is usually not a successful one.

Thomas Jefferson	Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling never fails employment.

Seneca Stoic Roman writer & statesman	It is easy to escape from business, if you will only despise the rewards of business.

Theodore Roosevelt	We demand that big business give the people a square deal.

Cervantes	Let every man mind his own business.

	Business is a combination of war and sport.

	Another thing you can't take with you is character. It will remain behind to bless or blight.

Andre Maurois	Character has been called the spiritual house in which we live, and its value depends on that state of repair.

	You can no more blame your circumstances for your character than you can the mirror for your looks.

Meggido Message	Fame is vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings. Only one thing endures -- that is character.

Ralph W. Sockman	The atomic age has not changed the true goals of character.

Aristotle Greek philosopher (384-322 BC)	Our characters are the result of our conduct.

Goethe	Talent is nurtured aye in solitude, But character 'mid the tempests of the world.

Heraclitus	Character is destiny.

Abraham Lincoln	Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Pliny the Younger	To my mind, the best and most faultless character is his who is as ready to pardon the rest of mankind, as though he daily transgressed himself; and at the same time as cautionary to avoid a fault as if he never forgave one.

US President (1913-21)Thomas Woodrow Wilson American statesman (1856-1924)

Joubert	To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.

Publilius Syrus	A man's own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

Novalis	Character is perfectly educated will.

Henry David Thoreau American author/naturalist (1817-62)	How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?

Oliver Wendell Holmes	The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

Macauley	The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

	Then there were the good old days when charity was a virtue and not an industry.

	The important thing about charity is not what you think about it but how you feel about it.

	If charity begins at home, that explains why so many campaigns flop. Nobody stays home these days.

	And of course there are always those who claim that before they would accept charity they would beg.

	There's an old saying that "charity should begin at home." Why not? That's where poverty usually begins.

	Charity is one of those wonderful virtues that are also tax deductible.

	Even if there were no overhead to charity work, tight-wads would find some other excuse not to give.

	The sun never sets on American charity.

Thomas Hood	Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity.

Horace Smith	Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

O'Reilly	The organized charity scrimped and iced, In the name of cautionary, statistical Christ.

Nietzsche	I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

Addison	Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Walpole	In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind, but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them.

	The main trouble these days is that common sense isn't common.

	Common sense is doing what you have to do before doing what you want to do.

	Common sense is taking a bit from rainy day savings to buy an umbrella.

Tryon Edwards	Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

C. E. Stowe	Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

H. W. Beecher American preacher & lecturer (1813-87)	If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.

John Brown of Haddington	If you haven't grace, the Lord can give it to you. If you haven't learning I'll help you to get it. But if you haven't common sense, neither I, nor the Lord can give it to you.

	Prudence is nothing but common sense brought up on the way it should go.

Caballero	If common sense has not the brilliancy of the sun, it has the fixity of the stars.

W. Matthews	The crown of all faculties is common sense. It is not enough to do the right thing, it must be done at the right time and place. Talent knows what to do; tact knows when and how to do it.

P. J. Bailey	Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

Ella Higginson	O every heart hath its sorrow And every heart hath its pain -- But a day is always coming When the birds go north again.

Old Testament: Isaiah	Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.

Menander	On the fall of an oak, every man gathers wood.

Thomas Jefferson	It is a comfort that the medal has two sides. There is much vice and misery in the world, I know; but more virtue and happiness, I believe.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.

Jeremy Taylor	There is no felicity upon earth, which carries not its counterpoise of misfortunes; no happiness which mounts so high, which is not depressed by some calamity.

Thomas � Kempis	If you rightly bear your cross, it will bear you.

Hume	All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Samuel Johnson	Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Edmund Burke	All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.

Sydney Smith	All great alterations in human affairs are produced by compromise.

Louis Untermeyer	From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me still unsatisfied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	Everything yields. The very glaciers are viscous, or regelate into conformity and the stiffest patriots falter and compromise.

	Confidence is the art of believing that you won't make the same goof twice.

	A cynic is one who placed confidence in a confidence man.

	Over-confidence has lost more games and battles than confidence ever won.

	A perfect example of full confidence is that piece of paper in your pocket with dollar marks on it.

	Another good test of confidence is gulping that first spoonful of restaurant soup.

	It's a good thing for us that at least one cave man had confidence that the wheel idea would work.

	The trouble starts when the man with confidence has no money and the man with money has no confidence.

	He isn't really a big-time crook unless you must let him alone to prevent the loss of public confidence.

	A bachelor is a man with enough confidence in his judgment of women to act on it.

Calvin Coolidge	Certainty is the basis of business confidence.

Chapman	Sole friend to worth, And patroness of all good spirits, Confidence.

George Herbert

Phrygian stoic philosopher (c.50-138)	Confident because of our caution.

Homer	By mutual confidence and mutual aid Great deeds are done, and great discoveries made.

Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld French writer & moralist (1613-80)	Confidence does more to make conversation than wit.

Publius Syrus	Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed.

Vergil	Alas! it is not wise to be confident when the gods are averse.

Daniel Webster	Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot be forced to trust.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)

	Conscience is that still small voice that yells so loud the morning after.

	Many a man alone with his conscience is all by himself.

	The difference between a pang of conscience and an ulcer is that the latter can be soothed.

	Conscience is to temptation what the stopper is to a bottle.

	A well-trained conscience is one that knows when to say nothing.

	Trouble comes out of someone's insistence on making his conscience your guide.

Herbert	Some make a conscience of spitting in church, and yet rob the altar.

	"The American conscience is becoming vocal," says a statesman. Suggestion to the American conscience: Louder.

	Scientists can magnify the human voice thousands of times but seem unable to do a darned thing for the voice of conscience.

	Narrow-minded people are especially annoying if your conscience agrees with what they say.

	Conscience is a very valuable asset for a politician. The more he has of it, the more he gets paid for stifling it.

	Some men are born with consciences. Other men marry them.

	Another thing the world needs is an amplifier for the still small voice.

	International conscience is the still small voice that tells a country when another country is stronger.

	The man with the clear conscience feels almost as comfortable as the man with no conscience at all.

	An archeologist says conscience began to hurt man about 3,000 B.C. That must explain why the pain is less now.

	The modern conscience is made with a lever to throw it out of gear.

	If conscience smite thee once, it is an admonition; if twice, it is a condemnation.

H. L. Mencken	Conscience: an inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.

Samuel Butler	Why should not conscience have vacation As well as other courts o' th' nation?

J. R. Lowell, pseudonym James Russell American poet, critic & editor (1819-91)	In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing; The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing.

	Money seems to talk louder when your conscience is asleep.

Taylor	Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.

Bovee	What we call conscience, is, in many instances, only a wholesome fear of the constable.

	It's wise to be content with your lot -- even if you haven't a lot.

	If life is an adventure in experience, the man who is content might as well be dead.

	Contentment is the bitter result of everything completed.

	The well of contentment isn't dug in a day.

	He was content with his lot. Getting possession of his neighbor's is what bothered him.

	The difference between a contented cow and a contented man is that the cow is still able to produce.

	It's okay to be content with what you have, but not with what you are.

	Most of us won't be contented with our lot until it's a lot more.

	The trick of being contented is to buy one model and never read the ads about the others.

Phrygian stoic philosopher (c.50-138)	Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

Benjamin Franklin	Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold.

Thomas Fuller English clergyman & author (1608-61)	Content is happiness

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	A good man is contented.

Thomas Fuller English clergyman & author (1608-61)	Content lodges oftener in cottages than palaces.

Socrates	Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

New Testament:Philippians	I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Naught's had, all's spent Where our desire is got without content.

Horace Latin poet (65 BC -8 BC)	That best of blessings, a contented mind.

Charles Churchill	To others let the glittering baubles fall, Content shall place us far above them all.

Jeremy Taylor	No chance is evil to him that is content.

Phrygian stoic philosopher (c.50-138)	I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

Eugene O'Neill	Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

	A person without courtesy is like a millionaire without a penny in his pocket.

	A courteous driver is one who, after hitting a pedestrian, never fails to say, "Excuse me."

	Politeness is prompted by the mind while courtesy is the instinctive desire to be kind and helpful.

	In business, courtesy costs less than any other kind of advertising and gets the most lasting results.

	Courtesy is the simple matter of putting yourself in the other fellow's place.

	Nobody ever lost anything by being courteous, but there are a lot of people still afraid to take the risk.



Emily Post	The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

Montaigne	Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is like grace and beauty in the body, which charm at first sight, and lead on to further intimacy and friendship.

William Pitt	Now as to politeness, I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.

Alexander Pope English poet & satirist (1688-1744)	True politeness consists in being easy about one's self and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

Schopenhauer	Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.

Marcus Tillius Cicero Roman orator, politician & philosopher (106-43 BC)	Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance.

Joubert	Politeness smoothes wrinkles.

Sterne	Hail, ye small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it!

Terence	Nothing is more valuable to a man than courtesy.

Goethe	There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

Ludwig Lewisohn	Politeness is to do and say The kindest thing in the kindest way.

Alfred Lord Tennyson English poet (1809-92)	The greater man the greater courtesy.

	The severest critic is the one who is totally indifferent.

John W. Harold	Criticised by another clergyman as a "termite gnawing at the temple gates," Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick replied, "Well, one consolation is that I am surrounded by a lot bigger bugs."

	When a man is building something solid, he doesn't worry about what idlers may scribble on the scaffolding.

	Mankind isn't in the habit of erecting statues in honor of critics.

	Ever question the benevolence of those who neglect their own business in order to criticize yours?

	Nothing can subvert the cause of democracy and brotherhood more than irresponsible personal criticisms of individuals.

	Another function of criticism is to tell people why they don't like things in the first place.

	It's but a short step from the critical to the hypocritical.

	There's only one way to handle the ignorant or malicious critic. Ignore him. Everybody else does.

	A literary critic is one who finds meaning in literature the author didn't know was there.

	Too many people are so busy telling the world what is wrong with it, they haven't time to improve it.

	He's not the kind who stays quiet when his friends are being criticized. He joins right in.

	A critic is a stowaway on the flight of someone else's imagination.

	A critic is a person who can appreciate something he doesn't like and depreciate something everybody likes.

	To escape criticism, live openly. Ever hear any scandal about a goldfish?

Sibelius	Pay no attention to what critics say. There has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.

G. B. Shaw

St. John Ervine	No one likes a critic.

Vauvenargues	It is easy to criticise an author, but difficult to appreciate him.

Addison	It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

R. G. White	Criticism is the child and handmaid of reflection. It works by censure, and censure implies a standard.

Matthew Arnold	Criticism is a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

Disraeli	It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Arthur Guiterman	The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent A man may use to build his monument.

Alexander Pope English poet & satirist (1688-1744)	In every work regard the author's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.

Alexander Pope English poet & satirist (1688-1744)	A perfect judge will read each work of wit With the same spirit that its author writ; Survey the whole, nor seek slight faults to find When nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

Lema�tre	Criticism of our contemporaries is not criticism; it is conversation.

Channing Pollock	A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Santayana	Criticism surprises the soul in the arms of convention.

Henry Van Dyke	Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain idea that every man is bound to be a critic of life.

Anatole France	The good critic is he who recounts the adventures of his soul in the milieu of masterpieces.

Christopher Morley	There are some literary critics ... who remind me of a gong at a grade crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train roars by.

Scott	Court not the critic's smile, nor dread his frown.

D. H. Lawrence	The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Ed Wynn	I'd rather drop dead on the stage than die in bed with my relatives crying over me.

	Those who have loved the stars are never fearful of the night.

	The coward who dies a thousand deaths is to be pitied, but he must be an undertaker's dream.

	Another reason people are living longer these days is that it costs too much to die.

Ernest Dowson	They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

	Still another difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time the legislature meets.

	So live that when you die the mourners will outnumber the cheering section.

	Another type of dead game sport is the poker player who turns up a fifth ace.

	Another difference between death and taxes is that death is frequently painless.

	Then there are the kind of people who make dead doornails look very much alive.

	It's fine to speak well of the dead, but what shall we do about those who are dead and don't know it?

	The next toll that should be abolished from the highways is the death toll.

	Does the death sentence curb crime? Well, it curbs those who have suffered it.

	Scientists say the time will come when there will be no unnecessary deaths. This will be done, we suppose, by reducing the number of necessary deaths to one per person.

	One easy way to die in the old days was to blow out the gas. The present way is to step on it.

	When anyone tells you something is as safe as sleeping in bed, remember that more people die in bed than anywhere else.

	Modern medicine is credited with cutting the death rate in half. Let's hope it isn't the wrong half.

	Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Only two things in this life are certain -- death and taxes." What the taxpayer resents is that they don't come in that order.

	The death penalty might not stop murders, but it would discourage repeaters.

	The trouble with good intentions is that death gets in ahead of them.

Alexander Pope English poet & satirist (1688-1744)	Die, and endow a college or a cat.

Alexander Smith	Death is the ugly fact which nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Swift	It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

H. W. Beecher American preacher & lecturer (1813-87)	Death is but the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Young	Nothing is dead, but that which wished to die; Nothing is dead, but wretchedness and pain.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Even through the hollow eyes of death I spy life peering.

Walt Whitman	Come lovely and soothing death Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.

Seneca Stoic Roman writer & statesman	He whom you say is passed away has simply posted on ahead.

Menander	Whom the gods love dies young.

Browning	Death with the might of his sunbeam Touches the flesh, and the soul awakes.

Samuel Butler the Younger	To himself every one is an immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Euripides	Death takes no denial.

Book of Common Prayer	In the midst of life we are in death.

Nancy Byrd Turner	Death is only an old door Set in the garden wall.

Benjamin Franklin	When death puts out the flame, the snuff will tell If we are wax or tallow by the smell.

William Penn	Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

Shelley	Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep and it is lifted.

Marcus Aurelius Roman Emporer (121-180)	Death, like birth, is a secret of nature.

Byron	Oh God! it is a fearful thing To see the human soul take wing In any shape, in any mood.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	All that live must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Vergil	Each has his appointed day; life is brief and irrevocable.

Lucan	The timid and the brave alike must die.

Publilius	As men we are all equal in the presence of death.

Abd-el-Kader	Death is a black camel which kneels at the gates of all.

Maurice Maeterlinck	All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.

Ellen Glasgow	The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

William Shakespeare English poet & dramatist (1564-1616)	Death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns.

Aeschylus	Thou alone, O death, are the healer of deadly ills.

Petrarch	For death betimes is comfort, not dismay, And who can rightly die needs no delay.

W. L. George	He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Martial	Neither dread your last day nor desire it.

Sir Oliver Lodge	Death is not a foe, but an inevitable adventure.

Dr. Alfred Zimmern	Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

	Progress: That condition under which the rich get richer and the poor get credit cards.

	Now we're reaching the point of three cars in every garage -- and none paid for.

	With a national debt as big as ours, there's little wonder we're looking to space for more room.

	There is one way for a young couple planning marriage to stay out of debt. Break off the engagement.

	Molehills of debt build mountains of worry.

	In signing installment contracts it's well to remember that the big print giveth while the small print taketh away.

	Then just about the time you pull even with the Joneses, they refinance.

	Miracle drugs are so prolonging life that some persons may live long enough to pay off their house mortgages.

	There was a time when a man who owed money was said to be in debt. Today he is described as overfinanced.

	Liberty is the privilege of making yourself a slave to time payments.

	The honeymoon has been described as that brief span of time between mating and debting.

	Another good rule is not to buy it for a song unless you know who is calling the payment tune.

	A writer says America has always been keenly interested in early settlers. Financially speaking?

	America is a country in which equality means that society imposes no handicap upon any child to prevent him from going into debt as deep as anyone else.

	Once the three R's stood for reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Today they stand for rockets, radiation and refinancing.

	The time is coming when the average estate will consist of a second-hand flying saucer and three credit cards.

	Many a case of ulcers can be traced to asset indigestion.

	Deeds that cause the most worry are those that are heavily mortgaged.

	Another way to stay out of debt is to live above your yearnings.

	A national debt is annoying, but in these troubled times it's nice to have something that is permanent.

	How to keep out of debt: Earn more than you yearn.

	Marriage vows might be a trifle more accurate if the phrase were changed to read, "Until debt do us part."

	Some men are known by their deeds; others by their mortgages.

	The wages of war is debt.

	Loan sharks attack those who go beyond their financial depth.

	Alimony is another war debt a lot of ex-husbands would like to see cancelled.

	The best possible thing to do with a debt is pay it.

	What you don't owe won't hurt you.

	Too many make the mistake of dolling up on a dollar down.

	The only thing that doesn't become smaller when contracted is a debt.

	There's one collision few auto owners can avoid -- running into debt.

	If the meek inherit the earth any time soon, they'll be deep enough in debt to keep them meek.

	Every American child comes into the world endowed with liberty, opportunity, and a share of the national debt.

	The "passing generation" is so called because of the debts it is passing along to the next.

	It's pretty obvious why they are called Houses of Tomorrow. That's when they'll be paid for.

Disraeli	Debt is the prolific mother of folly and crime.

John Randolph	I have discovered the philosopher's stone that turns every thing into gold; it is "pay as you go."

New Testament: Romans	Owe no man anything but to love one another.

Publilius Syrus	Debt is grievous bondage to an honorable man.

Benjamin Franklin	Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.

Marcus Tillius Cicero Roman orator, politician & philosopher (106-43 BC)	A debt and gratitude are different things.

Bacon	I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

	In making big decisions, he who hesitates is usually bossed.

	There's only one way to make sure your decisions are never overruled. Become a baseball umpire.

	The first step toward avoiding divorce is deciding who will make the decisions.

John Foster	When a firm, decisive spirit is recognized it is curious to see how the space clears around a man and leaves him room and freedom.

Longfellow	Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled.

Julius Caesar	The die is cast.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

Publilius Syrus	Deliberate as often as you please, but when you decide it is once for all.

Schiller	He who considers too much will perform little.

Sophocles Greek tragic poet (c.496 BC-c.406 BC)	Swift decisions are not sure.

A. Maclaren	The man who has not learned to say "no" will be a weak if not a wretched man as long as he lives.

	Asked how he stood on an issue, the politician replied: "I haven't decided yet; but I'll tell you this, whichever side I take I'm going to be bitter!"

Elias Lieberman	In the lives of successful men and women, defeats have been but preliminary skirmishes on the high road to victory.

	He was the kind of fellow who is often beaten but never defeated.

	Defeat isn't bitter unless you swallow it.

Charles Morgan	All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich	They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

G. B. Shaw	A living failure is better than a dead masterpiece.

Henry Austin	There's no defeat, in truth, save from within; Unless you're beaten there you're bound to win.

Bulwer-Lytton, Wm. Henry Lytton Earle, Baron Dallin & Bulwer English diplomat and author (1810-72)	In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word As___ fail!

Richard Hovey	Who would not rather founder in the fight Than not have known the glory of the fray?

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.

H. W. Beecher American preacher & lecturer (1813-87)	Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

Walt Whitman	Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

Wendell Phillips American reformer & orator (1811-84)	What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

J. R. Lowell, pseudonym James Russell American poet, critic & editor (1819-91)	To fail at all is to fail utterly.

Montaigne	There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

William Lloyd Garrison	We may be personally defeated, but our principles never.

G. K. Chesterton	It is impossible to make the world safe for democracy because "democracy is a dangerous trade."

	Democracy will survive only so long as humanity proves stronger than hate.

J. R. Lowell, pseudonym James Russell American poet, critic & editor (1819-91)	Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Thornton Wilder American playwright (born 1897)	Democracy is not only an attempt at social equality for all men; it is also the effort to give them the consciousness that they are equal in God's respect.

	Democracy will survive only so long as even a wrong guy has certain rights.

Walter Lippmann	In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

	Then there is always the fellow who is so democratic he doesn't know the difference between right and wrong.

	Democracy may be summed up in four words

	A true democracy is one in which the rich get every consideration granted the poor.

	Autocracy fails because it assumes one class is better fitted to govern than another; democracy fails because it makes no such assumption.

	One of the triumphs of democracy seems to be that the minority has the say and the majority has to pay.

	In the orchards of American democracy, the plums fall the first Tuesday in November.

	Sometimes we despair of seeing the world made safe for democracy, and would settle for the highways being made so.

	Another engrossing spectacle in a great democracy is a political leader catching up from time to time with his followers.

Harry Emerson Fosdick	Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

G. B. Shaw	Democracy is no longer balked. It is bilked.

William Y. Elliott	Democracy is like a waterlogged old scow: It doesn't get very far very fast, but then it doesn't sink.

Harriet Beecher Stowe American novelist & humanitarian (1861-96)	Your little child is your only true democrat.

Byron	The devil was the first democrat.

G. K. Chesterton	Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Sir James Jeans	Democracy is ever eager for rapid progress, and the only progress which can be rapid is progress downhill.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe and gone to seed.

J. R. Lowell, pseudonym James Russell American poet, critic & editor (1819-91)	Democ'acy gives every man The right to be his own oppressor.

G. K. Chesterton	You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

Tacitus	It is easier for a republican form of government to be applauded than realized.

Oscar Wilde	Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

G. B. Shaw	Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Ted Cook	The country still has faith in the rule of the people it's going to elect next.

Disraeli	The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

	Man wants little here below, and usually gets it.

	Yearnings usually keep about three jumps ahead of earnings.

	Then there are always those who mistake sated desire for virtue.

	Some men desire immortality; others are willing to settle for tomorrow's headline.

	Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time just wishing.

	Sometimes the desire to work seems to be confined to the classified ads.

Marcel Proust	We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Confuscius	If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably never get there.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Aristotle Greek philosopher (384-322 BC)	We should aim rather at leveling down our desires than leveling up our means.

Cervantes	Heaven favors good desires.

George Moore	We live in our desires rather than in our achievements.

Vergil	His own desire leads every man.

G.B. Shaw	There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

Francis Davison	Where desire doth bear the sway, The heart must rule, the head obey.

Marcus Tillius Cicero Roman orator, politician & philosopher (106-43 BC)	The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

Swift	The stoical schemes of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Henry Van Dyke	It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire.

Helvetius	By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, no motive to act.

	Prophets of despair are the worst enemies of the profit system.

	Doubt is the double first cousin of despair.

	Infinite despair? There is no such thing. Even hell has boundaries, or else where does heaven begin?

	Beware that the springs of self-pity be permitted to feed the rivers of despair.

	More often than not sleepless despair is caused by the caffeine of conscience.

Henry David Thoreau American author/naturalist (1817-62)	A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Fielding	Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

John Bunyan	The name of the slough was despond.

George Granville	There is no vulture like despair.

Horace Latin poet (65 BC - 8 BC)	Never despair.

Scott	An evil counsellor is despair.

	When Congress adjourns it should not mistake that mighty sound as a groan of despair.

Homer	Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

Butler	Our last and best defense, despair; Despair, by which the gallant'st feats Have been achiev'd in greatest straits.

George Eliot	What we call despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

Jeremy Taylor	It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.

Browning	Let me not know that all is lost, Though lost it be -- leave me not tied To this despair, this corpse-like bride.

	It's as easy to run away from your difficulties as it is to outrun your shadow.

	Then there are those generous souls always willing to share their difficulties.

	Another way to stay in debt is to keep on borrowing trouble.

Machiavelli	Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Edmund Burke	Difficulty is a severe instructor.

Marcus Tillius Cicero Roman orator, politician & philosopher (106-43 BC)	The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Lao-Tze	He who accounts all things easy will have many difficulties.

Moliere	The greater the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

J. G. Holman	Every difficulty yields to the enterprising.

Phrygian stoic philosopher (c.50-138)	It is difficulties which show what men are.

Goethe	The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.

Seneca Stoic Roman writer & statesman	Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Thomas Fuller English clergyman & author (1608-61)	All things are difficult before they are easy.

H. W. Beecher American preacher & lecturer (1813-87)	Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them we would esteem it a proof of God's confidence -- as a compliment from Him.

Sir Walter Scott	Two sisters by the goal are set, Cold Disappointment and Regret.

John Randolph	Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunder-storm, always turn sour.

	Entertaining vain hope leaves the door wide open to disappointment.

	The kind of fellow who's always disappointed in love might find that love feels the same way about him.

Burns	The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy!

	The way to prevent today's hope from becoming tomorrow's disappointment is to get busy.

Philip James Bailey	There is not disappointment we endure One half so great as that we are to ourselves.

Bulwer-Lytton, Wm. Henry Lytton Earle, Baron Dallin & Bulwer English diplomat and author (1810-72)	Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

Disraeli	The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth.

George Eliot	Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

	Winners in this race of life are usually pursued by a sense of duty.

	That detour to avoid obligations usually proves rougher than the path of duty.

	A hero is one who hears the call of duty above the pounding of his own heart.

	We always need the kind of men whose shoes were made to trod the hard ways of duty.

	Doing your duty often means plunging into something you know you might drown in.

Alfred Lord Tennyson English poet (1809-92)	Not once or twice in our rough island story The path of duty was the way to glory.

	To the tariff enthusiast a thing of duty is a joy forever.

	The best way to get rid of your duties is to discharge them.

Lacordaire	Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, or immortality.

	Duty is carrying on promptly and faithfully the affairs now before you.

Goethe	Duty: It is to fulfil the claims of today.

Thomas Carlyle Scottish born English author (1795-1881)	Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

	No man ever becomes so blinded that he can't see the other fellow's duty.

Marcus Tillius Cicero Roman orator, politician & philosopher (106-43 BC)	There is not a moment without some duty.

George Eliot	The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another.

T. L. Cuyler	God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

Phrygian stoic philosopher (c.50-138)	Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concern.

Bacon	When the soul resolves to perform every duty, immediately it is conscious of the presence of God.

H. More	Perish discretion when it interferes with duty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson American poet & essayist (1803-82)	So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

John Ruskin English critic & social theorist (1819-1900)	Every duty which we omit, obscures some truth which we should have known.

Tryon Edwards	Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Phrygian stoic philosopher (c.50-138)	We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with selecting those parts. Our simple duty is confined to playing them well.

Montaigne	Know thyself and do thine own work, says Plato; and each includes the other and covers the whole duty of man.

Robert E. Lee	Duty then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

First US President George Washington	The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.



St. Augustine	In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

G. Macdonald	The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, the last duty well done.

John Ruskin English critic & social theorist (1819-1900)	God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

US President (1913-21)Thomas Woodrow Wilson American statesman (1856-1924)	There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

	Some people have learned their lesson. They're going to save during the next depression so they can live through the next era of prosperity.

	Passing the national debt on to the next generation is a sure way to discourage ancestor worship.

	Ulcers can be a blessing. Look how they cut down on your food bill.

	A joint checking account is a fine thing providing both parties stay out of joints.

	They're saving a place in the Hall of Fame for the man who comes up with a cheap substitute for food.

	Another way to