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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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In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.
— Woodrow Wilson
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A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a…
— Edgar Degas
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Instead of recognizing the State as ‘the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men,’ the run of mankind, with rare…
— Albert J. Nock
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the…
— Ovid
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It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me…
— David Hume
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But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the…
— David Hume
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A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.
— Aphra Behn
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Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Even knaves may be made good for something.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far…
— James Russell Lowell
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