There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

Alexandre Dumas
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  1. The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

  2. We must seek together to address the good aspirations of people everywhere, for we are bound together through great commonality.

  3. A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

  4. Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

  5. Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

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