"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

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"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"There are three categories of people exist in the world; "the wanters", "the wishers" and "the makers."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."

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"Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life."

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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself."

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"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

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"There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred."

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"In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."

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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

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"Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more."

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"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."

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"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way too."

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"Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent."

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