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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they… — Robert Southey
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and… — C.S. Lewis
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is… — Hugh Black
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume… — William James
Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us… — Helen Keller
Happiness, it seems to me, consists of two things: first, in being where you belong, and second -- and best -- in comfortably going through… — Theodor Fontane
History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws. — Auguste Comte
Inertia is the first law of history, as it is of physics. — Morris Raphael Cohen
In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth. — James Harvey Robinson
The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian's writings should… — Pope Leo XIII
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the… — Robin G. Collingwood
One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the… — John Taylor Gatto
Journalism is merely history's first draft. — Geoffrey Ward
When you're depressed, the whole body is depressed, and it translates to the cellular level. The first objective is to get your energy up, and… — O. Carl Simonton
A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first place. You realize… — Derrick Jensen
Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was. — Jenny McCarthy
No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along. — Joyce Brothers
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. — Richard Strauss
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. — Nancy Astor
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying… — Alan Kay

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