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• The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  -- Old Testament -- Psalm xcii, 12...
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to he man who is actually in the arena...
• It shall be said: He died as he had lived: In his sleep.
• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
  The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...
• If A fool persists in his folly he shall become wise. -- William Blake
• Picard: "'He was a man...take him for all in all...
  we shall not look upon his like again.'" -- "The Most Toys", Stardate unknow...
• He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- Locksley Hall, Line 49...
• The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital.
  This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor....
• Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see!
  What shall I render to my God For all his gifts to me?...