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To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.
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The friend of nature is the man who feels himself inwardly united with everything that lives in nature, who shares in the fate of all creatures, helps them when he can in their pain and need, and as far as possible avoids injuring or taking life.
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The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will.
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No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
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The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.
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Soldiers' graves are the greatest preachers of peace.
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Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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If you are called upon to play a church service, it is a greater honor than if you were to play a concert on the finest organ in the world... Thank God each time when you are privileged to sit before the organ console and assist in the worship of the Almighty.
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