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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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