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  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, - from Hermann und Dorothea...
• Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
  -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)...
• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
  -- John Tillotso...
• Skinner: Superintendent, we made the front page today!
  [holds up newspaper, covering word "Awful" in headline] Chalme...
• It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well
  and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water....
• Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue.
  There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . ....
• Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. [Confound those who have said our remarks before us.
  ] or [May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.] -- Aelius Donatu...
• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...