"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

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Source : Henry Clay (1981). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Secretary of State 1827”, p.769, University Press of Kentucky

Henry Clay

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“Always in England if you had the type of brain that was capable of understanding T.S. Eliot's poetry or Kant's logic, you could be sure of finding large numbers of people who would hate you violently.”
“We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”
“To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common sense. They have only to look within themselves, to reflect upon their own nature, to consult their obvious interests, to consider the object of society and of each of the members who compose it, and they will easily understand that virtue is an advantage, and that vice is an injury to beings of the species.”
“The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.”
“The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.”
“I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.”

Source : Peter F. Hamilton (2009). “Pandora's Star”, p.645, Pan Macmillan
“If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.”
“Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.”

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