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• Rev.: Marge is going to tell us about your faults, why don't you tell us about hers?
  Homer: Oh, she's perfect. Rev.: Come on, Homer, what are her faults?...
• Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
  Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselve...
• There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others.
  Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and our thoughts, as well as our success....
• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
  Henry David Thoreau...
• Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
  She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)...
• Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.
  She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
• If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.
  -- Lord Clarendo...
• All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...