Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Unless you believe you will not understand.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.
No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
