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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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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies…
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There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the…
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In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and…
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Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to…
— Augustus William Hare
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But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening…
— Thomas de Quincey
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A just and lively image of human representing, its passions and humours and the changing of fortune to, which it is subject…
— John Dryden
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Diversity of humours breedth tumours
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