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The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide

The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

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

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

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 American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

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.

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

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

I won't have a problem with you if you aim high and miss, but I will have a real problem if you aim low and hit.

If you’re going to do a job, do it right.

Above all, he must guard and you must guard him against indolence. Make him a strenuous man. I had to force myself into being strenuous as you know--had always an inclination to be idle.

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

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

There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled.

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

Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people.

neither federal nor state government acts compatibly with the equal protection principle when a law or official policy denies to women, simply because they are women, full citizenship stature -- equal opportunity to aspire, achieve, participate in and contribute to society based on their individual talents and capacities

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