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• Train up a child the way he should go and
when he is old he will not depart from it.
Bible
• Justice is the Constant desire and effort to
render to everymanhis due –
Justician
• Never answer a letter while you are angry. –
Chinese Proverb
• Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent
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Propetius
• You will become as small as your controlling
desire or as great as your dominant aspiration
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J.L.Allen
• Honour thy father and thy mother .
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Exodus
A man has no enemy worse than himself
Cicero
Ability is of little account without
opportunity.
Napoleon
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to
suffer it .
Plato
Character is what you are in the dark.
D.L. Moody
• To strive to seek to find and not to yield.
Tennyson
• God loveth the clean.
The Koran
• Conscience is God’s presence in mind
Swedenbord
• The most importantthing for a nation is to
produce men and women, good and true.
Jawaharlal Nehru
• Let noble thoughts come to us from everyside
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Rigveda
• The love of a mother is never exhausted, it
never changes it never dies.
– Washington Irving
• O Lord, lead me from untruth to truth, from
darkness to light , from death to immortality.
Upanishads
• True beauty consists of the purity of heart.
Mahatma
Gandhi
• A good heart is better than all the heads in
the world.
Lyttor
• To preserve in one’s duty and to be silent is
the best answer to calumny.
Washington
• I will not be traitor to God to please the
whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi
• If a boy is not lively or noisy, either his body
or his soul is sick, unless he is very rare
exception.
Don Bosco
• My rule was always to do the business of the
day in the day.
Wellesley
• Time goes, you say? Ah not I Alas, time stays
, We go.
A. Doleson
• What I seek I get not, what I get, I seek
not.
Rabindranath Tagore
• Democracy that became dictatorship of the
numerical majority is immortal .
Karl
• They are able because they think they are
able .
Virgil
• To accept good advice is but to increase one’s
own ability.
Goathe
• Trust not too much to an enchanting face.
Virgil
• At the hour of death what matter is what you
have done not what you plan to do.
Don Bosco
• Obey your conscience . Rabindranath Tagore
• There can be no worship without good action.
Guru Nanak
• What doth it profit a man if he gains the
whole world and suffer the loss of the own
soul?
The Bible
• All living is vain except to know Him and to
serve Him.
Guru Nanak
• Health is the greatest of all possessions a
pale cobbler is better than a sick king.
Bickerstaff
• Strength does not come from physical
capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma
Gandhi
• Next to acquiring good friends the best
acquisition is that of good books .
Golton
• The more judgement a man has the slower he
will be to condemn.
Maurier
• Do thy duty, that is best; have un’o the Lord
the rest.
Longfellow
• Respect for the opinion of others is one of
the clearest signs of a truly educated man.
O’Brien
• If everyone would see to his own reformation
how easily we might reform a nation. Pope
• Watever advice you give be short. Horace
• Well arranged time is the surest mark of a
well arranged mind.
Pitman
• “Impossible “ I can’t ,should not exist in the
vocabulary of a diligent student.
Anon
• No race will prosper till lit learns that there
is as much dignity in telling a field as in
writing a poem.
B.T.Washington
• Live your whole attention to whatever you are
doing, and think nothing unworthy of care
consideration.
Confucius
• Friendship multiplies joys an divide griefs.
H.G. Bohn
• For dust thou art and unto dust shall thou
return.
The Bible.
• No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The
misfortune is to do it solemnly.
Montaigne
• We must beat the iron while it is hot; but we
may polish it on leisure.
Dryded
• Manner make the man.
Daniel Defoe
• God is our refuge and our strongfold.
The Psalms
• Genius is one persent inspiration and ninety
nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A Edison
• An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his
eyes.
Cato
• To give the poor is to open a bank account in
heaven .
Don
Bosco
• Where you can’t remove an obstacle plough
round it .
Lincoln
• Meet success like a gentleman and disaster
like a man .
Lord Birkenhead
• I hate to see things done big halves. It be right, do it
badly if it be wrong leave it undone.
Gilpin
• Better mend one fault in your self than a hundred in
your neighbour .
Wlbert Aubbard
• One of the greatest lessons of life is to learn not to
do what one like but to like what one does.
H Black
• Adversity is the crucible in which friendship is
tested.
Gandhiji
• The temple of our purest thought is silence.
S J Hale
• The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those
who can be of no service to him.
Anan
• Our greatest glory is not in every falling but
in rising very time we fall.
Confucius
• Hell is full of the talented but heaven of the
energetic.
Fultin F Sheen
• Remember there can be no happiness for
anyone unless it is to be won for all. J.C.Bose
• Be calm in arguing for fierceness makes error
a fault and truth discourtesy.
Herbert
• Ability is of little account without
opportunity.
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Napoleon
I think god for my handicaps for through
them I have found myself my work and my
God
Helen Keller
Gratitude is a lively sense of future favours.
Sir Robert Walpole
Every man is a volume if you knew how to read
him.
Canning
Character is not ready made but is created
bit by bit and day by day.
Edna Lyall
• Be great in act as you have been in thought.Suit the
action to the word and the word to the action.
Shakespeare
• You will become as small as your controlling desire
or as great as your dominant aspiration.
J.L Allen
• All great art is the expression of man’s delight in
God’s work not his own.
Tuskin
• A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he
thinks that he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi
• The greatest remedy for anger is delay .
Seneca
• Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Erica Jong
• Those who profess to favour freedom and yet
depreciate agitation are men who want rain
without thunder and lightening.
Fredrick Douglass
Learn a new language and get a new soul. Czeck
Proverb
• Never close your lips to those to whom you
hape opened your heart. Charles Dickens
• The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no
cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr
• The only way to keep your health is to eat
what your don’t want , drienk what you don’t
like and do what you’d rather not.
Mark Twain
• Friendship is love without his wings. Lord
Byron
• I am not denying woman are foolish; God
Almighty made them to match the men .
George Eliot
• It’s always easy to tell your station in life
sooner or later, someone tells you where to
get off.
Herb Daniels
• Wit the technique it has dynamite will never learn to
sculpt.
Sofocles
• With is the salt of conversation not the food.
William Hazlitt
• The only thing most people do better than anyone else
is read their own handwriting.
J.A
• IN Politics there is only one way, the other.
Sofoclets
• If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then give
up . theres no use in being a damn fool about it.
W.C .Fields
• Nobody has any other right than that of doing ones
duty .
Augusta Comte
• The cinema has no boundary, it is a ribbon of dream .
Oreon Welles
• Flattery is all right if you don’t inhale.
Adlai Stevenson
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be
free.
Cicero
• People who make music together cannot be enemies
atleast not while the music lasts.
Paul Hindsmith
• Our experience is composed rather of illusion lost
thatn of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Rouz
• Culture is one thing and varnish another
Ralph Waldo Emerson
• When I play with my cat who knows if I am not more
of a pastime to her than she is to me.
Montaigne
• There is a vast difference between putting your nose
in other peoples business and putting your heart in
other peoples problems.
Phoenix Central
• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a
minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle
• There is no record on human history of a happy
philosopher.
H.L.Menckess
• It is your interest that is at stake when your next
neighbours wall is ablaze.
Horace
• Education begins with life.
B. Franklin
• Though patience be a tired mare yet she will plod.
Shakespeare
• I don’t like money but it quites my nerve.
Joe Louis
• Between friends there is no need of justice.
Aristotle
• What is morally wrong can be politically right.
William Gladstone
• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Rousseau
• Freedom demands respect for the freedom of others.
James Branch Cabell
• There are no faster or firmer friendships than those
between people who love the same books.
Irving Stone
• The age of the centuries is the youth of the world.
Francis Bacon
• Progress is the law of life man is not man as yet.
Robert Browning
• Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error
George Eliot
• Trial by jury itself instead of being a security to
persons who are accused, will be delusion, a mockery
and a snare. Thomas Lord Denman
• Show me the metaphor and I shall show you the man.
Keats
• Party is the madness of the many for the gain of a
few.
Pope
• Though patients die, the doctors paid. Llicenced to
kill, he gains a place for what another amounts the
gallows.
Willliam Broome
• To be seventy years young is sometimes more
cheerful and hopeful thatn to be fourty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
• There are only tow ways of getting on in the world, by
ones own industry or by the stupiodity of others.
LA Bruyere
• If wer are to abolish the death penalty , I should
like to see the first ste taken by our friends the
murderers.
Alphonso Karr
• Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are
inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
Bernard Shaw
• We haave just enough religion to make us hate but
not enough to make us love one anotherJonathan Swift
• Discontent is the first step on the progress of a ma
or nation.
Oscar Wilde
• The best of men cannot suspend their fate. The good
die early and the bad die late.
Daniel Defoe
• Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
• Whitewashed, he quits te politicians trife at ease
in mind, with pockets filled for life.
J.R.Lowell
• Heaven has no range like love to hatred turned
nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
• Coward is one who is a perilous emergency thinks
with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce
• Bad times hav a scientific value These are
occasions a good learner will not miss. Emerson
• Beneath the rule of me entirely great the pen is
mightier thant the sword.
Edward George
• The hopeful man sees success where others see
fortune, sunshine where others see shadows and
storm.
O.S. Mardex
• Error is the discipline through which we advance .
William E Channing
• It is the end that crowns us, not the fightRobert Herrick
• Thus our democracy was from an early period, the
most aristocratic and our aristocracy the most
democratic in the world.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Business today consists in persuading crowds.
Gerald Stanley Lee
• Mr Morgan buys his partners, I grow my own.
Andrew Carnegie
• I shot a rocket in the air it fell to earth, I know
not where for so swiftly it flew the sight could
not fellow it in its flight- Longfellow
• I would rather be the first man here rather than
the second at Rome.
Julius Ceaser
• And famished people must be slowly nurst and fed
by spoonfuls else they always burst.
Byron
• And each upon his rivals glared, with fast
advanced and lsde half bared .
Scott
• A national debt, if it is not excessive will be to us
a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton
• No man has a night to fix the boundary of the
march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his
country .thus far shall thou go and no further.
Charles Stewart Parnell
• An oppressive government is more to be feared
than a tiger.
Confucius
• There can be no church in which the demon will
not have chapel .
Cardinal Paleotti
• He who is firmly seatd in authority soon learns to
think security and not progress, the highest
lesson of statecraft.
J.R.Lowell
• And they will best succeed who best can
pay.Those who would gain the votes of British
tribes, must add to force of merit, force of
bribes.
Charles Churchill
• The commander of the forces of a large state
may be carried off, but the will of even a common
man cannot be taken fro him.
Confucius
• Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure,
It’s to see my dividends coming in.
John D Rockefeller
• It is easier to appear worthy of a position one
does not held than of the office one fills.
LA Rochefoucaulo
• Histories are more full of examples of the
fidelity of dogs than friends.
Pope
• Votes should be weighed, not counted.
Schiller
• Give me a level long enough and a fulerum
strong enough and single handed. I can
move the world.
Archimedes
• It is better to withheld a deserved rebuke
than to administer it ungraciously.
St. Franci De Sales
• He that cometh in print because he would
be known is like the fool that cometh into
the market because he would be seen. Lyly
• Trust not the physician, his antidates are poison,
and he slays , more than the rob.
Shakespeare
• I hav nothing to offer but blood , toil , tears and
sweat.
Winston Churchill
• Man is by nature a political animal. Lord Acton
• I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesar
• A thing of beauty is a joy forever. John Keats
• England expects every man to do his duty.
Admiral Nelson
• Truth and non-violence are my God.
Mahatma Gandhi
• Jai Jawan Jai Kisan .
Lal Bahadur Shastri
• Swaraj is my birthright and i will have it.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• It is melancholy true that even great men
have their poor relations. Charles Dickens
• A an may be very sincere in good principles
without good practice.
Dr.Samuel Johnson
• The good governor should have a broken
leg and keep at home.
Cervantes
• And famished people must be slowly nurst
and fed by spoonfuls else they always
burst.
Byron
• Business today consists in persuading
crowds.
Byron
• Might and right govern everything in this
world might till right is ready.
Joubert
• We are always getting ready to live, but
nevre living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
• When people contend for their liberty they
seldom get anything by their victory but new
masters.
Lord Halifax
• I shot a rocket in the air it fell to earth, I know
not where fare so swiftly it flew, the sight could
not follow it in its flight.
Longfellow
• The commander of forces of a larg state may be
carried off, but the will of even a common man
cannot be taken from him.
Conficius
• No matter how good the idea of the other fellow
may be there is always better one!
Col. W.R. Nelson
• Tradidtion is one of the most cherished and most
dangerous possession of human race.
S.M.Furnas
• Hatred does not cease by hatred ; but only b love
this is the eternal rule.
Buddha
• Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. Cervantes
• Faith without good work is dead .
Bible
• Custom without reason is but ancient error.
Thomas Fuller
• There is no knowledge that is not power.
Emerson
• A lifetime of happiness! No man alive can bear it;
it would be hell on earth.
Oscar Wilde
• What if we still ride on we two with life forever
old yet new.
Robert Browning
• Genius is fostered by industry.
Cicero
• Silence is the perfectest herald of joy.
Shakespeare
• A wod uttered from a pure heart never goes in
vain.
Mahatma Gandhi
• Lover is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is
of light.
Carlyle
• It is easy to be good when that which prevents it
is far off.
Quid
• Honest fame awaits the truly good.
• A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Lucan
Swift
• It is too easy to go over to majority.
Seneca
• Everything unnatural is immortal.
Napoleon
• The better a man is, less ready is he to
suspect dishonesty I others.
Cicero
• The ultimate result of shielding men from the
effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Cardinal Spellmay
• Our song is the voice of desire that haunts our
dreams
Robert Bridges
• Mere parsimony is not enough .Expense and great
expenx may be essential part of true economy.
Edmund Burke
• There is no sin except stupidity. Oscar Wilde
• The most useless day of all is that in which we
have not laughed.
S.N. Champfort
• They who cannot perform great things themselves
yet have a satisfaction in doing justice to those
who can.
Horace Walpole
• In plucking the fruit memory on runs the risk of
spoiling itsbloom.
Joseph Conrad
• The beauty of the world has two edges, one of
laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart
asunder.
Virginia Woof
• Humorous is emotional chaos recollected in
tranquility.
James Thurber
• No man is useless while he has a friend.
R.L.Stevenson
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others
cannot keep it from themselves.
J.M.Barrie
• Things do not change: we change.
H.D. Thoreau
• Education has produced a vast population able to
read but unable to distinguished what is worth
reading.
G.M. Trevelgar
• The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray
• The man who never alters his opinions is like
standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake
• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools
and the beacons of wise man.
Thomas Henry Huxley
• The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are
at present only exploring its finger.
J.D.Bernal
• The weak have one weapon, the errors of those
who think they are wrong.
Georges Bidault
• There are more things in heaven and earth,
Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Shakespeare
• Error of opinion may be tolerated whre reason is
left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson
• Public life is a situation of power and energy. He
trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his
watch, as well as he who goes over to the enemy.
Edmund Burke
• We have too many people who live without
working, and we have altogether too many people
who work without living.
Charles R Brown
• Even when laws have een writeen down, they ought
not always remain unaltered.
Aristotle
• Perfect I call thy plan: Thanks that I was a man!
Robert Browning
• There are two things to aim at in life – first to
get what you want and, after that to enjoy it.
Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Loga Pearsall Smith
• Priests are more necessary to religion than
politicians to patriotism.
John Haynes Holmes
• The finest plans have always been spoilt by the
littleness of them tat should carry them out.
Bertolt Brecht
• When a man assumes a public trust, he should
consider himself as public property.
Thomas Jefferson
• The secret of success in life is known only to
those who have not succeeded.
John Churton Colhins
• Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of
money to even get best with.
Will Rogers
• Tere are tow tragedies in life. One is to lose your
heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
G.B.Shaw
• The glory of great men must always be measured
by the means they have used to obtain it.
Francois La Rochefoucault
• One of the best ways of persuading others is with
your ears-by listening to them .
Dean Rusk
• Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen
• Fortune is like the market where many times, if
you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon
• Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without
much patient self- inspection.
Frank Moore Colby
• Doing easily what others find difficult is talent,
doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri.
Frederic Amiel
• You can’t change people but you can channel them
your way.
Hal Stabbins
• The secret of success in life is known only to
those who have not succeeded.
John Churton Collins
• Nothing can harm a good man, either in life or
after death.
Socrates
• Man’s mind stretched by a new idea can neve go
back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
• When a man lives in submission to any authority, it
means he is paying the price of personal freedom.
Mahatma Gandhi
• There is no duty we so much underrate as the
duty of being happy.
R.L.Stevenson
• True luck consists not in holding the best of cards
at the table. Luckiest is he who knows just when
to rise and go home.
John Hay
• In baiting a mouse trap wit cheese, always leave
room for the mouse.
H.H.Munro Saki
• It is only shallow people who do not judge by
appearance.
Oscar Wilde
• The whole history of civilization is strewn with
creeds and institutions which were invaluable at
first sight and deadly afterwords.
Walter Bagehot
• It is ideas not vested interests which are
dangerous for good or evil.
John Maynard Keynes
• Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes
great things decay.
Sallust
• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for
he is the only animal that is struck with the
difference between what things are and what
they ought to be.
William Hazlitt
• Bravity is the soul of wit.
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Shakespeare
Every man has his price.
Sir Robert Walpole
Better bend than break.
Scottish Proverb
Society is built upon trust.
Scouth
Confession is the first step to repentence.
Edmund Gayton
• Every slip is not a fall.
Thomas Fuller
• Fear always springs from ignorance.
Emerson
• No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Shakespeare
• Honour lies in honest toil.
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Grover Cleveland
Leisure with dignity.
Cicero
The family is more sacred than the state.
Pope Pius
Liberty’s in every blow! Let us do or die. Burns
The richest mind need not libraries.
A.B.Alcott
The cheerful loser is a winner.
Elbert Hubbard
• Love, that reason of all unreasonable
actions.
Dryden
• Luck for the fools and chance for the ugly.
Berthelson
• Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
George Santayana
• Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
Emerson
• Like cure likes.
Hahnemann
• Let us eat and be merry.
Lucke XV
• The dreadful dead of dark midnight.
Shakespeare
• Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
Seneca
• Merit or demerit lies in the motive.
Mahatma Gandhi
• A modest man never talks of himself.
LA Bruyere
• Music is the speech of angels.
Carlyle
• Necessity is the mother of invention.
Anon
• Order is Heaven’s first law.
Pope
• The voice of the people is the voice of
God.
Alouin
• The will of the people is the best law.
Ulysses S.Grant
• Philosophy is the highest music.
Plato
• A poet is born not made.
Anon