Do not despise the day of small beginings!

i.e. George Washington, John Locke, Charles Darwin, C.S. Lewis. . .

"All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated through this book...All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible."
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 16th President of the United States

"It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people."
--Horace Greeley (1811-1872) Publisher and Journalist

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) 26th President of the United States

"Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible]."
--Ronald Reagan (1911- ) 40th President of the United States

Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
--George Washington (also a favorite quote of Dale Carnegie, who frequently quoted it from Washington)

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
--George Washington

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.
--George Washington

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
-- EDMUND BURKE

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke (1729-1797) - English statesman

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton. 1642-1727.
Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii.

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