Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

George Herbert · Jacula Prudentum, 141

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert · Jacula Prudentum, 686

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky.

George Herbert · The Temple. The Church. Virtue, st. 1

The best mirror is an old friend.

George Herbert · From Herbert's collection of proverbs.

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To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

Clement of Alexandria · The Stromata (Miscellanies), bk. 1

Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.

Albert Einstein · The source reads: “Doing “good” (in an ethical sense) is in reality difficult to achieve. To me, something creative that has been done with love is to have done “good.”” · To Valentine Bulgakov, 4 November 1931.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease can be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must begin somewhere.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 25 May 1911

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“Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.”

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky.”

“The best mirror is an old friend.”

“To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.”

“Something creative that has been done with love is to have done good.”

“The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease can be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must begin somewhere.”