“The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“Nevertheless, so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration...”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

“Those who cherish their freedom and recognize and respect the equal right of their neighbors to be free and live in peace, must work together for the triumph of law and moral principles in order that peace, justice, and confidence may prevail...”

― Franklin D. Roosevelt, Quarantine Speech

“Even with her altered complexion and her face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulchre, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.”

― Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

“now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.”

― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

“I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, for grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want everyone to scratch himself to death.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives.”

― William Shakespeare, Richard II

“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.”

― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“Indeed, I have always been of opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Remarkable Rocket

“Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.”

― Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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