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Too often we judge others by their worst example, while judging ourselves by our best intentions. George W. Bush, at 2016 interfaith memorial service for 5 slain Dallas police officers.
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions of others! A weird life it is to be living always in someone else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in which we could be real. Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain.
And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Thomas Jefferson. The last sentence of the Declaration of Independence. They really meant it.
Every day do one thing that scares you. Eleanore Roosevelt
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shores
Send these, the tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus
To lose one parent is tragedy. To lose both is negligence. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Peace comes at it maximum only to the man who has given up golf. P.G. Wodehouse
More weight. The character Giles Corey in The Crucible, by Arthur Miller. You'll have to look it up or ask me.
