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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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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
— Donald C. Peattie
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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in…
— H.G. Wells
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We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society…
— Jean Baudrillard
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When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and…
— Joseph Addison
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Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as…
— Robert Moses
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A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party,…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right
— Unknown Author
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I do not believe in religions in the modern sense. It is an excrescence and a handicap on progress.
— KM II
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