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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to incur it.

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) American military leader and author
Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman, ch. 25 (1875)

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

William Hazlitt (1778-1830) English writer
“On the Clerical Character” (January/February 1818), Political Essays (1819)

It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.

President George Washington (1732-1799) US President, military leader
“Letter to the Hebrew Congregation at Newport,” Rhode Island (17 Aug 1790)
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian philosopher and nationalist [b. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]
In Young India (9 Mar 1992)

The worst egoist is the person to whom the thought has never occurred that he might be one.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Austrian psychoanalyst and neurologist
“Notebook of Aphorisms” (1871)