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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 there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about…
— Jack Nicklaus
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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he…
— Isaac Barrow
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To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
— Khalil Gibran
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Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and…
— William Wilberforce
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Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of…
— Joseph Addison
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
— Jonathan Swift
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No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if…
— Boethius
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Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body…
— Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
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