Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle (384-322BC)
-- Aristotle (384-322BC)
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle (384... - Dignity does not consist in possessing honors,
but in deserving them. --... - True dignity is never gained by place,
and never won when honors are withdrawn. --... - The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now
an excellent life requires exertion,
and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or... - Life does not consist of thinking,
it consists in acting... - The people most preoccupied with titles and status
are usually the least deserving of them... - Nature does nothing
uselessly. --... - It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and
not deserve them.
Mark...
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- She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be. -- Francis Thompson (1859... - Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into
lessons,
all sins into experiences. -- Katherine... - God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.
--
Albert... - If God had really intended men to fly,
he'd make it easier to get to the airport. ... - We the unwilling
working for the ungrateful
are doing the impossible.
We have done so much, for so long, with so little,...
