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“Nothing is stronger than gentleness.”
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“So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts”
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“All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.”
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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
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“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153
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“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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“I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.”
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“I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.”
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“I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.”
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“You can't help the poor by being one of them.”
