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All people are endowed with the faculty of compassion, and for this reason can develop the humanitarian spirit.

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Albert Schweitzer
Age: 90 †
Born: 1875
Born: January 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 4
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He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself.
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Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.
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The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used to failing.
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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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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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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The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips.
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Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
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