THOUGHTS OF THE DAY

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Always the courage to stand up for what you believe in
and always have the confidence to stand behind it

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice...
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it...
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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
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am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
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He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
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He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
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Did you know that there are gifts that will multiply your happiness when you give them away...
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One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
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You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
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The gift of sight to see beyond
The darker clouds of now...
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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
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Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
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Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.
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From Home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
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Somehow, not only for Christmas, But all the long year through, the joy that you give to others, is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing, the poor and lonely and sad, the more of your heart's possessing, returns to you glad.
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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
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The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.
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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.
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