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The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau

I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
- Winston Churchill

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
- Abraham Lincoln

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

John Morley Quotes and Quotations

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

- John Morley | Life Quotes

Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.

- John Morley | Politics Quotes

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

- John Morley | Religion Quotes

It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place, or in the second place.

- John Morley | Truth Quotes

He who hates vice hates men.

- John Morley | Vice Quotes

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

- John Morley | Goals Quotes

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

- John Morley | Proof Quotes

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I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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