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"Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."
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"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
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"How vain, without the merit, is the name."
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"Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth."
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"The only people who are qualified for miracles are the people who have qualified themselves by doing their own best."
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"Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world."
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"The amount of money you make ethically is directly proportionate to the value you add in others people's life."
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"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
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"Merit is better than miracles."
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"Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters."
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"They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence."
Humor
"What lies in our power to do it lies in our power not to do."
Power
"The soul never thinks without a picture."
Wisdom
"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."
Friendship
"And it will often happen that a man with wealth in the form of coined money will not have enough to eat, and what a ridiculous kind of wealth is that which even in abundance will not save you from dying with hunger!"
Economy
"Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who framed them, and less about what he said than about what he meant; not to consider the actions of the accused so much as his intentions; nor this or that detail so much as the whole story; to ask not what a man is now but what he has always or usually been."
Law
"Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, and many which appear to be oligarchical are the ruin of oligarchies. Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state."
Politics
"All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder-either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity."
Emotion
"The physician heals Nature makes well."
Healing
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
Criticism
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