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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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We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
— Henry Adams
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It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly…
— Patrick Henry
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Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable…
— James Madison
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A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get…
— John Bunyan
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But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence.…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
— Epictetus
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The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
— John Dryden
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Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and…
— Joseph Addison
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