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We make this demand, not for our own sakes alone, but for the succour of the race.

That even one individual in a society should be debarred from undertaking that form of social toil for which it is most fitted, makes an unnecessary deficit in the general social assets.

It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.

Success is jealous of scattered energies.

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Work rather for those interests which the divinities honor and promote,--justice, love, freedom, knowledge, utility.

To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.

Until he has been part of a cause larger than himself, no man is truly whole.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

I know that peace does not come through wishing for it--that there is no substitute for days and even years of patient and prolonged diplomacy.

Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.

Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

It may consist with perpetual failure, and find exercise in the continued chase.

he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best

Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.

Work is the law of our being--the living principle that carries men and nations onward.

Every man's first duty is, to improve, to educate, and elevate himself--helping forward his brethren at the same time by all reasonable methods.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past.

success--the real success--does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position

Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.