Knowledge will ever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
–James Madison

Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of Divine existence.
–John Wesley

Pay what you owe, and your worth you’ll know.
–Proverb

Criticisms never hurt anybody. If false they can’t hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true they show a man his weak points and forewarn him against failure.
–W. E. Gladstone

They who never think, always talk.
–Proverb

The world is yet in the twilight, doubtless, but it is the twilight of the breaking dawn, not the falling night. Despair of the world’s future is disloyalty to God.
–G. B. Wilcox

Fame is what you have taken;
   Character’s what you give.
When to this truth you waken,
   Then you begin to live.
–Anonymous

       Great deeds cannot die;
They with the sun and moon renew their light
Forever, blessing those that look on them.
–Alfred Tennyson

Happy are those who have a lyre in the heart, and music in the mind which their actions perform.
–Joseph Joubert

Time is short enough for those who know how to use it; time is very, very long for those who do not know how to use it that their main difficulty is to devise means to get rid of it.
–Robert Collyer

Industry pays debts, but despair increases them.
–Proverb

The wealth of a man is the number of things he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.
–Thomas Carlyle

Wit is the lightning of the mind.
–Proverb

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
–John Ruskin

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
–Proverb

A good book and a good woman are excellent things for those who know how justly to appreciate their value. There are men, however, who judge of both from the beauty of the covering.
–Anonymous

Greatness stands on a precipice.
–Proverb

Many a young man is utterly ruined by wealth and want of occupation. It does not cost much to live a happy, honorable life, but it costs a mint of money to live and do nothing.
–T. W. Handford

In all the affairs of human life, social as well as political, I have remarked that courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
–Henry Clay

Write injury on water and kindness on marble.
–Proverb

To him who has been sated and disappointed by the actual and intelligible, there is a profound charm in the unattainable and inscrutable.
–Anonymous

Believe. Act. Achieve!

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