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• We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow me
  and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects....
• I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
  -- E. M. Forste...
• Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity.
  To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion....
• We live behind our faces, while they front for us.
• Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds. -- Miguel de Cervante
• We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. -- George Chapma
• The highest compact we can make with our fellow is- "Let there be truth between us forevermore.
  -- Emerso...
• I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared.
  To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt....
• How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
  The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air....