"A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."

Morality, Status, Humility, Work, Values

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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Morality, Crime, Self, Responsibility, Truth

"Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."

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"We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

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"All would live long but none would be old."

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"None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing."

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"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas."

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"Applause waits on success."

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"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."

"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."

"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."

"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."

"Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

"A person is what he says and does, that's how you learn whether his reputation was earned or manufactured."

"Satan is never your well-wisher. Get the pleasure of making him annoyed on you by doing good deeds."

"The proper name for the thing is modesty; but as we live in an age of prejudice and must not call things by their right names, we will yield to a more modern nomenclature and call it dignity."

"How can I blame others, when I cannot stop myself committing crimes?"

"Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne."

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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."

"God helps them that helps themselves."

"Be not sick too late, nor well too soon."

"Well done is better than well said."

"To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."

"We must indeed all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."

"All would live long but none would be old."

"None preaches better than the ant and she says nothing."

"Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no ambition corrupt thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollily; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas."

"Applause waits on success."