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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with read more
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common read more
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of read more
The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst
Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst
Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared read more
Each being is sacred -- meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being.
