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[Quote No.19789] Need Area: Friends > General
"...well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one." - George Washington
(1732 - 1799) 1st U.S. President
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[Quote No.19794] Need Area: Friends > General
"The sweet remembrance of the just,
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust." - Nahum Tate
(1652–1715), English poet and playwright who wrote a popular adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear in 1687 and was appointed poet laureate.
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[Quote No.19795] Need Area: Friends > General
"Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the furies to agitate and torment it. Frauds, crimes, remembrances of the past and terrors of the future, these are the domestic furies that are ever present to the minds of the impious." - Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106 B.C. - 43 B.C.) Roman orator
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[Quote No.19796] Need Area: Friends > General
"Not sharp revenge, nor Hell itself can find
a fiercer torment than a guilty mind." - John Dryden
(1631 - 1700) English poet and author
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[Quote No.19797] Need Area: Friends > General
"To be left alone, and face-to-face with my own crime, had been just retribution." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807 - 1882) American poet
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[Quote No.19798] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is not just when a villainous act [crime] has been committed that it torments us; it is when we think of it afterward, for the remembrance of it lasts forever." - Jean Jacques Rousseau
(1712 - 1778) Swiss philosopher
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[Quote No.19799] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is a future left to all men [and women] who have the virtue to repent [of past crime], and the energy to atone [apologize and compensate all victims-including their family and society, as well as commit to better future conduct]." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
(1803 - 1873) English novelist
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[Quote No.19800] Need Area: Friends > General
"[crime:] Sorrow for having done amiss is fruitless if it issue not in doing so no more." - Bishop George Horne
(1730 - 1792) English bishop
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[Quote No.19801] Need Area: Friends > General
"True repentance hates the sin [crime], and not merely the penalty..." - W. M. Taylor
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[Quote No.19802] Need Area: Friends > General
"True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin and broken from sin [crime]. Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, which frequently starts and stops, but never turns back." - Bonnell Thornton
(1724 - 1768) English humorist
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[Quote No.19803] Need Area: Friends > General
"Mere sorrow [for crime], which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life." - Marvin R. Vincent
(1834 - 1922) American clergy
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[Quote No.19809] Need Area: Friends > General
"The two most precious things this side the grave is our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. A wise man, therefore, will be more anxious to deserve a fair name than to possess it, and this will teach him so to live, as not to be afraid to die." - Charles Caleb Colton
(1780 - 1832) English clergy
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[Quote No.19810] Need Area: Friends > General
"A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one." - Lord Jeffery
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[Quote No.19811] Need Area: Friends > General
"One may be better than his reputation, but never better than his principles." - Nicolas Valentin de Latena
(1790 - 1881) French magistrate
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[Quote No.19812] Need Area: Friends > General
"A proper self - regard becomes improper as soon as we begin to value reputation more than real character." - unknown
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[Quote No.19813] Need Area: Friends > General
"We should be careful to deserve a good reputation by doing well..." - John Wilmot Rochester
(1647 - 80) English courtier and wit
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[Quote No.19814] Need Area: Friends > General
"The way to gain a good reputation is, to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." - Socrates
(469 B.C. - 399 B.C.) Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.19815] Need Area: Friends > General
"Regard your good name [reputation for honor and good character] as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again." - Unknown
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[Quote No.19816] Need Area: Friends > General
"See that your character is right, and in the long run your reputation will be right." - Unknown
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[Quote No.19830] Need Area: Friends > General
"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. [and a justified strong self-respect will be your rich reward.]" - Henry Ward Beecher
(1813 - 1887) American clergy
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[Quote No.19834] Need Area: Friends > General
"Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong [crime]." - Tryon Edwards
(1809 - 1894) American theologian
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[Quote No.19836] Need Area: Friends > General
"...the exercise of every right carries with it certain obligations." - Mohandas K. Gandhi
(1869 - 1948) Indian nationalist and spiritual leader
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[Quote No.19837] Need Area: Friends > General
"Each is responsible for his own actions." - J. H. Leigh Hunt
(1784 - 1859) English author
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[Quote No.19844] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities to ourselves and others, but we cannot dodge the consequences to ourselves and others of dodging our responsibilities." - Unknown
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[Quote No.19845] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who shrink from their responsibilities to themselves and others keep shrinking in other ways." - Unknown
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[Quote No.19860] Need Area: Friends > General
"Man never fastened one end of a chain around the neck of his brother, that God did not fasten the other end round the neck of the oppressor." - Alphonse de Lamartine
(1790 - 1869) French poet
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[Quote No.19861] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Crime:] The blind and cowardly spirit of evil is forever telling you that evil things are pardonable, and you shall not die for them; and that good things are impossible, and you need not live for them, And, if you believe these things, you will find some day, to your cost, that they are untrue." - John Ruskin
(1819 - 1900) English critic, essayist and social reformer
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[Quote No.19869] Need Area: Friends > General
"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged." - Joseph Joubert
(1754 - 1824) French moralist
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[Quote No.19880] Need Area: Friends > General
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
35th U.S. President
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[Quote No.19881] Need Area: Friends > General
"Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral, and afterwards in the material sphere." - Giuseppe Mazzini
(1805 - 1872) Italian patriot
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[Quote No.19882] Need Area: Friends > General
"How a minority,
Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
Hates a minority." - Leonard H. Robbins
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[Quote No.19883] Need Area: Friends > General
"The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary." - Bishop Richard Whately
(1787 - 1863) Archbishop of Dublin
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[Quote No.19887] Need Area: Friends > General
"...it is precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something." - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
(121 - 180) Roman emperor and philosopher
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[Quote No.19904] Need Area: Friends > General
"All men are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826) 3rd U.S. President
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[Quote No.19905] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is no right without a parallel duty, no liberty without the supremacy of the law, no high destiny without earnest perseverance, no greatness without self - denial." - Francis Lieber
(1800 - 1872) German - American educator and author
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[Quote No.19906] Need Area: Friends > General
"Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it.
" - Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865) 16th U.S. President
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[Quote No.19907] Need Area: Friends > General
"No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right." - Charles Simmons
(1798 - 1856) American clergy and litterateur
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[Quote No.19908] Need Area: Friends > General
"Never... can we deny rights to another, which, under the same circumstances, we would claim for ourselves." - Gardiner Spring
(1785 - 1873) American clergy
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[Quote No.19912] Need Area: Friends > General
"The rules of life are found within yourself. Ask yourself constantly, 'What is the right thing to do?' " - Confucius
(550 B.C. - 478 B.C.) Chinese moral teacher
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[Quote No.19914] Need Area: Friends > General
"Be you to others kind and true,
As you'd have others be to you." - Isaac Watts
(1674 - 1748) English divine and hymn writer
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[Quote No.19917] Need Area: Friends > General
"Self - preservation is the first law of nature; self sacrifice the highest rule of grace." - Unknown
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[Quote No.19918] Need Area: Friends > General
"Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice." - Marquis de Vauvenargues
(1715 - 1747) French moral philosopher
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[Quote No.19935] Need Area: Friends > General
"Modern man worships at the temple of science, yet science tells him only what is possible, not what is right. [which is the province of Religion, Ethics and Psychology and personal conscience.]" - Milton S. Eisenhower
Brother of Dwight D. Eisenhower (the thirty-fourth President of the United States).
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[Quote No.19949] Need Area: Friends > General
"Tse Kung asked, 'Is there one word that can serve as a principle of conduct for life?' Confucius replied, 'It is the word 'shu' – reciprocity: Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you'." - Confucius
in 'Analects' 15.23
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[Quote No.19974] Need Area: Friends > General
"The ultimate security is your understanding of reality." - H. Stanley Judd
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[Quote No.19978] Need Area: Friends > General
"Every temptation that is resisted, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sinful thought that is repressed, every bitter word that is withheld, adds its little item to the impetus of that great movement which is bearing humanity onward toward a richer life and higher character." - Wilbur Fisk
(1792 - 1839) American divine
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[Quote No.19987] Need Area: Friends > General
"Contempt of all outward things that come in competition with duty fulfils the ideal of human greatness." - William Ellery Channing
(1780 - 1842) American Unitarian clergy
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[Quote No.19989] Need Area: Friends > General
"That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a lower, and which constitutes human goodness and nobleness, is self - forgetfulness, self sacrifice the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right." - James A. Froude
(1818 - 1894) English historian
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[Quote No.19990] Need Area: Friends > General
"One never knows himself till he has denied himself. The altar of sacrifice is the touchstone of character." - O. P. Gifford
19th century American clergy
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[Quote No.19993] Need Area: Friends > General
"One secret act of self - denial, one sacrifice of inclination to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle people indulge themselves." - John Henry Newman
(1801 - 1890) English cardinal
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