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2019 December 13
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"[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development
overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home." |
"I believe more follies are committed
out of complaisance to the world,
than in following our own inclinations." |
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2019 December 12
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"I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
What I can do, I should do.
And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do." |
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"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." |
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2019 December 11
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"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." |
"There can be no public or private virtue
unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth." |
"To thine own self be true, and it must follow,
as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." |
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2019 December 10
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"Character is the accumulated confidence that individual men and women acquire from years of doing the right thing, over and over again, even when they don't feel like it. People with character understand that their lives are filled with events and choices that are significant, above all, not because of the short term success or failure of the search for money or position, but because the choices we make are actually making us into one kind of person, or another. Our life of choices is a life-long labor to make ourselves into a person who has begun to respond adequately to the awesome gift we received from God when He made us in His image." |
"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act but a habit" |
"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts." |
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2019 December 09
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"Nearly all men can withstand adversity;
if you want to test a man's character, give him power." |
"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man." |
"Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them." |
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