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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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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all…
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Use humility to make the enemy haughty. Tire them by flight. Cause division among them. When they are unprepared, attack and make…
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Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.
— Euripides
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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit…
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Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I…
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I was recently asked what it takes to become a writer. Three things, I answered: first, one must cultivate incompetence at almost…
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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit…
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As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a…
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The appointment of Jesus to be the Savior of the world was contested by one of the other sons of God. He…
— Milton R. Hunter
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