I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
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The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.John Ruskin
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself.
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Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself my disgust at her barbarity clumsiness darkness bitter mockery of herself is the most desolating.
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The highest reward for a mans toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
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Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
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Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
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