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Former Governor General Of Canada Inspirational Quotes (60)

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As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.
Adrienne Clarkson
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When you get on the boat that's saving you, don't pull up the ladder behind you
Adrienne Clarkson
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What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie? he asked. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.
John Buchan
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History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.
Vincent Massey
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Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.
John Buchan
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That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
John Buchan
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You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
John Buchan
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
John Buchan
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I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.
John Buchan
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[W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.
John Buchan
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Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.
John Buchan
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How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!
Vincent Massey
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Truth must the guide of those who hold the power but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.
Vincent Massey
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We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
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It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.
Vincent Massey
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I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.
Vincent Massey
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In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.
John Buchan
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He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
John Buchan
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Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failures of our neighbors but their successes.
John Buchan
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The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.
John Buchan
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He who would valiant be against all disaster let him in constancy follow the Master. There's no discouragement shall make him once relent his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.
John Buchan
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You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
John Buchan
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Without humility there can be no humanity.
John Buchan
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Wise men never grow up indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.
John Buchan
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