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Albert Schweitzer

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

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The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

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Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

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Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

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Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

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I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

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Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

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I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

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Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

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Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

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Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

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