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George Herbert. Photo: Wikipedia

Storms make oaks take deeper root.
- George Herbert

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.
- Cicero

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- The Dalai Lama

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
- H. G. Wells

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
- Seneca

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
- Don Marquis

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
- Plato

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