Quote by John Burns
You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. – John Burns

Other quotes by John Burns

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience. – John Burns

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Courage
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I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves. – John Burns

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Sympathy
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Other Quotes from
Morning
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If people were meant to pop out of bed, we’d all sleep in toasters. – Author unknown, attributed to Jim Davis

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Morning

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasnt working. – Lesley Gore

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Morning

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something. – John Lewis

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Morning

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren’t for the rise-and-shine requirement. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Morning

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The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. – Jim Hightower

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Courage

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. – Mark Twain

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Happiness

I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger. – Muhammad Ali, 1967, refusing to fight in Vietnam

Category:
Racism

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. – Simon Raven

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Patience