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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything. (Sockman Ralph W.)
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. (Sockman Ralph W.)
I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom. (Sockman Ralph W.)
God forgive you, but I never can. (Sockman Ralph W.)
A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time. (Sockman Ralph W.)
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. (Sockman Ralph W.)
And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Such as we are made of, such we be. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. (Sockman Ralph W.)
The highest qualities of character must be earned. (Sockman Ralph W.)
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou (Sockman Ralph W.)
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. (Sockman Ralph W.)
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. (Sockman Ralph W.)
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur. (Sockman Ralph W.)
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. (Sockman Ralph W.)
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