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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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John Buchan

I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and a solitary place glad.

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The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

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I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

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That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

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And where the deepest current crawls
Like thistledown the dainty fly falls.
Then from the depths a silver gleam
Quick flashes, like a jewel bright.
Up through the waters of the stream
An instant visible to sight
As lightning cleaves to sombre sky
A rainbow rises to the fly.

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There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.

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