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You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains… — Eugene Delacroix
Profit is a by-product of work; happiness is its chief product. — Henry Ford
The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce
Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief… — David Hume
Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes. — Mark Twain
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses… — Samuel Johnson
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the… — James Madison
The chief thing is to love others likeyourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd,… — Henry David Thoreau
Haven't we all heard some irritating person saying that if so-and-so is elected, then he/she is absolutely definitely leaving the country? There must be some… — Christopher Hitchens
One chief cause of the amount of unbelief in the world is tha tthose who have seen something of the glory of Christ set themselves… — George MacDonald
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for â€¨the… — Charles Darwin
One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell
One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion… — Murray Gell-Mann
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of… — Charles Horton Cooley
Those who make happiness the chief objective of life are bound to fail, for happiness is a by-product rather than an end in itself. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to… — Lucy Larcom
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to… — Sri Aurobindo
A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate. — Thomas Jefferson

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