"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."

Morality, Tragedy, Genius, Honor

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"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

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"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."

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"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."

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"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

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"I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it."

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"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."

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"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."

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"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."

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"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."

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