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Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we…
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown…
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope…
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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become…
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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but…
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation…
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
— Isaac Barrow
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the…
— William Shakespeare
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Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
— Oscar Wilde
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from…
— Joseph Addison
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Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's…
— Joy Williams
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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which…
— Walter Lippmann
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From the first I was clamorous to learn ...
— Eudora Welty
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To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.
— Sophocles
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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
— Ben Okri
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing…
— H. L. Mencken
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Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the…
— H. L. Mencken
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The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders At out quaint spirits.
— William Shakespeare
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