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We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed.

Ay, gentle Thurio, for you know that love Wilt creep in service where it cannot go.

Small service is true service while it lasts: Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one; The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. -Norman Cousins.

All success consists in this: You are doing something for somebody - benefiting humanity - and the feeling of success comes from the consciousness of this. -Elbert Hubbard.

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. -Diogenes Laertius.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -David Star Jordan.

We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you. -Jeff Warner.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? -Vincent Van Gogh.

Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself. Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall. -Edward Young.

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens. -Elizabeth Berg.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. -Kahlil Gibran.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Up to his nest again, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson.

He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. -John Wooden.

One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. -Albert Schweitzer.

If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. -Loretta Girzartis.

After the verb "To Love"..."To Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world. -Bertha Von Suttner.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -Leo Tolstoy.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. -Aristotle.