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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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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and…
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There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.
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As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men…
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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is…
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
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The game is not set. There are so many layers that it is being perceived on. As your own consciousness becomes more…
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If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and…
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Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such…
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