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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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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old,…
— Joseph Addison
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I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.
— John McAfee
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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll…
— Erica Jong
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining…
— Seneca the Younger
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Avarice is the vice of declining years.
— George Bancroft
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