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To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. – Adam Smith

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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. – Adam Smith

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Nature
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

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Labor Day
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. – Adam Smith

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If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. – Reinhold Niebuhr

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Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society. – Honore de Balzac

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. – William Wordsworth

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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. – Henry David Thoreau

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A good maxim is never out of season. – English Proverb

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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed? – Michelangelo

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Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight. – Sargent Shriver

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The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. – Elbert Hubbard

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