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G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton

We must be fond of the world, even in order to change it.

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Edward Everett

Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of lie, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.

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Lammot du Pont

People may change their minds as often as their coats, and new sets of rules of conduct may be written every week, but the fact remains that human nature has not changed and does not change, that inherent human beliefs stay the same; the fundamental rules of human conduct continue to hold.

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Rudolf Driekurs

We can change our whole life and the attitude of people around us simply by changing ourselves.

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Theodore Cuyler, fully Theodore Ledyard Cuyler

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

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John Denham, fully Sir John Denham

Be just in all thy actions, and if join’d with those that are not, never change thy mind.

Change | Character | Mind |

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John Dewey

Happiness is fundamental in morals only because happiness is not something to be sought for, but is something now attained, even in the midst of pain and trouble, whenever recognition of our ties with nature and with fellow-men releases and informs our action.

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George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone than by unexpected words.

Change | Character | Words |

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William Feather

Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.

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Benjamin Franklin

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

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John Clayton Gifford

One man can completely change the character of a country, and the industry of its people, but dropping a single seed in fertile soil.

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Henry Giles

The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes and change the order of nations.

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Henry Ford

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right; there can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

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Owen Feltham

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of willfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Where do we now meet an original nature? And where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Character | Man | Nature | Strength |

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