Joseph Jacobs quotes
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“Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.”
-- Joseph JacobsSource : Joseph Jacobs (1896). “Jewish Ideals: And Other Essays”
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“The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.”
-- Joseph Jacobs
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“Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.”
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“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
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Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.142, Random House
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“Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.”
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“... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.”
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“No moral system can rest solely on authority.”
Source : Humanist Outlook (1968) introduction
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“The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness”
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Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 61), 1937.
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