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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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The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
— Joseph Addison
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He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
— George Herbert
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The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing…
— Thomas Jefferson
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You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here…
— Rajneesh
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The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society,…
— Rajneesh
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A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
— Carlos Castaneda
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I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the…
— J. G. Ballard
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I would rather live in Russia on black bread and vodka than in the United States at the best hotels. America knows…
— Isadora Duncan
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The man who is asleep reacts; he knows nothing of action. And reaction is a binding: it binds you into new prisons,…
— Rajneesh
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I build molecules for a living. I can't begin to tell you how difficult that job is. I stand in awe of…
— Unknown Author
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
— Paracelsus
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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