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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 proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was…
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When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do…
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Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
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The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.
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An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom,…
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Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
— Heraclitus
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I have known lots of millionaires who were not happy men; they had not got all they wanted and therefore had failed…
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I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says,…
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CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction…
— Ambrose Bierce
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As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian…
— Joseph Addison
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The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
— Mark Twain
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