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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient…
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Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to…
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Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer…
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What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
— Anthony Trollope
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No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross…
— Martin Luther
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The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water;…
— Swami Vivekananda
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False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes…
— Frederick William Robertson
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The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial,…
— Alexander Hamilton
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No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such
— Marcus Aurelius
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