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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 nicest thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive.
— Kenneth Williams
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Steve Carell, we’ve been nodding at each other for years now.
— Jane Lynch
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To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation…
— Bel Kaufman
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I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of…
— James A. Michener
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There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book…
— A J P Taylor
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We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company…
— Joan Didion
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Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
— Albert Einstein
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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres'…
— Alexander Pope
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In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other
— Yosa Buson
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader…
— Joseph Addison
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If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly…
— Lorrie Moore
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My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding…
— Patricia Briggs
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