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Show WISE WORDS. <br><br> "Nothing can be great which is not right." <br><br> [Samuel Johnson. <br><br> "He who spits against the wind spits in his own face." <br><br> [Benjamin Franklin. <br><br> "Hidden virtue is often despised, inasmuch as nothing extols it in our eyes." <br><br> [Massillon. <br><br> "If thou hast never been a fool be sure thou wilt never be a wise man." <br><br> [Thackeray. <br><br> "Manner is one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man." <br><br> [Sunday afternoon. <br><br> "Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body." <br><br> [J.J. Rousseau. <br><br> "Flatter is a false coin which has circulation only through our vanity." <br><br> [La Rochefoucauld. <br><br> "The best moral virtues are those of which the vulgar are, perhaps, the best judges." <br><br> [Chesterfield. <br><br> "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forget yourself one." <br><br> [Fronde. <br><br> "Peace of mind comes by meditating diligently, and by setting our hearts on what is noble." <br><br> [Seneca. <br><br> "Men seldom improve when they have no other models than themselves to copy after." <br><br> [Goldsmith. <br><br> "Modesty is worth what shadows are in a painting; she gives to it strength and relief." <br><br> [La Bruvere. <br><br> "The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." <br><br> [Lamb. <br><br> "He who rushes ahead in the path of progress to do good will meet many a wrong going to the rear." <br><br> [Brick Pomeroy. <br><br> "The man that claims that his view of the truth is the only right view, has more conceit than wisdom." <br><br> [Golden Rule. <br><br> "The company of fools may at first make us smile, but at last never fails to render us melancholy." <br><br> [Oliver Goldsmith. <br><br> "The good and noble man does nothing for the sake of appearance, but everything of the sake of acting well." <br><br> [Epictetus. <br><br> "The surest way of governing, both in a private family and a kingdom, is for a husband and a prince sometimes to drop their prerogative." <br><br> [Tom Brown. <br><br> "When a true genius appeareth in the world, you may know him by this infallible sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." <br><br> [Jonathan Swift. <br><br> "Energy will do anything that can be done in the world ; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged animal a man without it." <br><br> [Goethe. <br><br> "Cheap persons will stand upon ceremony, because there is no other ground; but to the great of the earth we need no introduction, nor do they need any to us." <br><br> [Thoreau. |