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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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Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican…
— Alistair Cooke
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As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.
— John Donne
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Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.
— Emma Lazarus
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I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to…
— David Brainerd
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At the moment I put the bread and wine into those dark hands, once stained with the blood of cannibalism, now stretched…
— John Gibson Paton
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I have chosen for my emblem a Star, representing the Virgin Mary, and the Eucharist. Those who know me as a professor…
— Unknown Author
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Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Even if the flag burning amendment does become law, the larger problem will remain of how to respectfully dispose of older, tattered…
— Jon Stewart
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The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
— Amy Lowell
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My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions…. The dove is my emblem…. I want…
— Thomas A. Edison
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