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[Quote No.16816] Need Area: Friends > General
"The aggregate happiness of society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government." - George Washington
(1732 - 1799) 1st U.S. President
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[Quote No.16817] Need Area: Friends > General
"The very idea of the power and right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government." - George Washington
(1732 - 1799) 1st U.S. President
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[Quote No.16818] Need Area: Friends > General
"...just government protects all in their religious rites..." - George Washington
(1732 - 1799) 1st U.S. President
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[Quote No.16819] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is to self-government, the great principle of popular representation and administration, the system that lets in all to participate in its counsels that we owe what we are, and what we hope to be." - Daniel Webster
(1782 - 1852) American orator and statesman
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[Quote No.16820] Need Area: Friends > General
"No government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no mere forms of government, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society." - Daniel Webster
(1782 - 1852) American orator and statesman
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[Quote No.16821] Need Area: Friends > General
"The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession', and its days are numbered." - Herbert George Wells
(1866 - 1946) English novelist and historian
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[Quote No.16823] Need Area: Friends > General
"Virtue, wisdom, goodness, and real worth, like the loadstone, never lose their power. These are the true graces, which are linked hand in hand, because it is by their influence that human hearts are so firmly united to each other." - Bruce Burton
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[Quote No.16824] Need Area: Friends > General
"...that which is founded on true virtue will always continue." - John Dryden
(1631 - 1700) English poet and author
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[Quote No.16840] Need Area: Friends > General
"...a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility these only, denominate men great and glorious." - Joseph Addison
(1672 - 1719) English essayist
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[Quote No.16841] Need Area: Friends > General
"Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind." - Washington Allston
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[Quote No.16842] Need Area: Friends > General
"The most substantial glory of a country is in its virtuous great men. [and women]" - Fisher Ames
(1758 - 1808) American statesman
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[Quote No.16843] Need Area: Friends > General
"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be." - Henri Frederic Amiel
(1821 - 1881) Swiss philosopher
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[Quote No.16844] Need Area: Friends > General
"Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right use of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own." - Henry Ward Beecher
(1813 - 1887) American clergy
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[Quote No.16845] Need Area: Friends > General
"A really great man is known by three signs - generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success." - Prince Otto Von Bismarck
(1815 - 1898) Prussian statesman
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[Quote No.16846] Need Area: Friends > General
"What makes the difference between a nation that is truly great and one that is merely rich and powerful? It is the simple things that make the difference: - honesty; knowing right from wrong; openness; self-respect; and the courage of conviction." - Governor David L. Boren
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[Quote No.16848] Need Area: Friends > General
"The greatest man is he who chooses the right with invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptations from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menace and frowns; and whose reliance on truth, [and] on virtue...is most unfaltering." - William Ellery Channing
(1780 - 1842) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.16853] Need Area: Friends > General
"The superior man does not set his mind either for or against anything; he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort." - Confucius
(550 B.C. - 478 B.C.) Chinese moral teacher
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[Quote No.16855] Need Area: Friends > General
"The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties; Wise, he is free from complexities; Bold, he is free from fear." - Confucius
(550 B.C. - 478 B.C.) Chinese moral teacher
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[Quote No.16856] Need Area: Friends > General
"Everything great is not always good, but all good things are great." - Demosthenes
(384 B.C. - 322 B.C.) Greek orator
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[Quote No.16858] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet and philosopher
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[Quote No.16861] Need Area: Friends > General
"There never was yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." - Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790) American statesman, inventor and author
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[Quote No.16864] Need Area: Friends > General
"No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the pages of history." - William Hazlitt
(1778 - 1830) English critic and author
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[Quote No.16865] Need Area: Friends > General
"No really great man ever thought himself so. [Humility is an essential quality of the true wisdom of real greatness.]" - William Hazlitt
(1778 - 1830) English critic and author
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[Quote No.16869] Need Area: Friends > General
"The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continuously without resentment." - Frank McKinney Hubbard
("Kin Hubbard")
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[Quote No.16872] Need Area: Friends > General
"The great men of the earth are but marking stones on the road of humanity..." - Giuseppe Mazzini
(1805 - 1872) Italian patriot
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[Quote No.16875] Need Area: Friends > General
"Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note [fame] do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows." - Charles Reade
(1814 - 1884) English novelist
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[Quote No.16877] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Truly] Great men [and women] never make bad use of their superiority...The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
(1712 - 1778) Swiss philosopher
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[Quote No.16878] Need Area: Friends > General
"Great minds like Heaven are pleased in doing good, though the ungrateful subjects of their favors are barren in return." - Nicholas Rowe
(1674 - 1718) English dramatist poet
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[Quote No.16879] Need Area: Friends > General
"He, who comes up to his own idea of greatness, must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind." - John Ruskin
(1819 - 1900) English critic, essayist and social reformer
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[Quote No.16880] Need Area: Friends > General
"I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man...[and woman]" - John Ruskin
(1819 - 1900) English critic, essayist and social reformer
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[Quote No.16882] Need Area: Friends > General
"He is not great who is not greatly good." - William Shakespeare
'Richard II' - Act 4, Scene I, - (1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.16883] Need Area: Friends > General
"In the truly great, virtue governs with a scepter of knowledge and wisdom." - Sir Philip Sidney
(1554 - 1586) English soldier and poet
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[Quote No.16933] Need Area: Friends > General
"The first day, a guest; the second, a burden; the third, a pest." - Edouard Rene Laboulaye
(1811 - 83) French jurist
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[Quote No.16934] Need Area: Friends > General
"Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone." - William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.16940] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is no real excellence in this entire world, which can be separated from right living." - David Starr Jordan
(1851 - 1931) American biologist and educator
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[Quote No.16948] Need Area: Friends > General
"Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt." - Hugh Blair
(1718 - 1800) Scottish divine
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[Quote No.16949] Need Area: Friends > General
"Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet and philosopher
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[Quote No.16950] Need Area: Friends > General
"Commit a crime - and pay in time!" - Unknown
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[Quote No.16951] Need Area: Friends > General
"Guilt automatically produces fear; you can fool people; but you can't fool your own automatic nervous system." - Dr. Max Levine
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[Quote No.16952] Need Area: Friends > General
"Guilt is the source of sorrow, the avenging fiend, which follows us behind with whips and stings." - Nicholas Rowe
(1674 - 1718) English dramatist poet
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[Quote No.16953] Need Area: Friends > General
"The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor." - Sir Walter Scott
(1771 - 1832) Scottish author and novelist
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[Quote No.16954] Need Area: Friends > General
"Let wickedness escape, as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(4 B.C. - 65 A.D.) Roman stoic philosopher
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[Quote No.16955] Need Area: Friends > General
"The mind of guilt is full of scorpions." - William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.16956] Need Area: Friends > General
"Though it sleeps long, the venom of great guilt, when death, or danger, or detection comes, will bite the spirit fiercely." - William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.16957] Need Area: Friends > General
"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal." - Robert South
(1634 - 1716) English divine
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[Quote No.16958] Need Area: Friends > General
"They who engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred. [The road to ruin and 'Hell', for you, your family and friends, is paved with bad intentions!]" - Robert Southey
(1774 - 1843) English poet laureate
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[Quote No.16959] Need Area: Friends > General
"From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed." - William Wordsworth
(1770 - 1850) English poet
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[Quote No.16960] Need Area: Friends > General
"The guilty believe all men speak ill of them." - Unknown
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[Quote No.16961] Need Area: Friends > General
"Show me the man who doesn't want his gun registered, and I will show you a man who shouldn't have a gun.
" - Horner Cummings
(1870 - 1956) American lawyer and politician
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[Quote No.16989] Need Area: Friends > General
"The habit of virtue cannot be formed in the closet; good habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle with temptation." - Bernard Gilpin
(1517 - 1583) English divine
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