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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
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These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help
create that fact.
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Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of .
Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of .
I have wished to know why the stars shine.
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.
This has been my life; I found it worth living.
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Go put your creed into the deed,
Nor speak with double tongue.
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Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.
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Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!
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My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to
the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that
constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor
is to be earned, not bought.
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This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I
would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any
idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only
that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow
brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves
his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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A Humanist Code of Ethics:
Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother.
Being is more important than having.
Never promote yourself at another's expense.
Hold life sacred; treat it with reverence.
Allow each person the digity of his or her labor.
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For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
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If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this
world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to
diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.
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I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in
politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free
and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
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All the lessons of history in four sentences:
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not
respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think
quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common--this is my symphony.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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