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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 really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just…
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Even success softens not the heart of the envious.
— Pindar
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'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions…
— David Hume
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Don't let yourself forget that God's grace rewards not only those who never slip, but also those who bend and fall. So…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even…
— Danny Baker
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Adde, quod ingĂ©nues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and…
— Unknown Author
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I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the…
— Mark Twain
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Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines,…
— Egon Friedell
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...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows...
— John M. Geddes
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Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.
— Stephen Mitchell
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Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
— Pema Chodron
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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
— Edmund Waller
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