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Henry Clay

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

Henry Clay, American Statesman
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"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

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Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian
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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer
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Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer
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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist
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"A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman
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"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."

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