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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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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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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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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that…
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words,…
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in…
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than…
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Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be…
— Joseph Addison
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As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make…
— Clifford Geertz
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more…
— Ambrose Bierce
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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to…
— Marjane Satrapi
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well;…
— Joseph Conrad
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There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it…
— John Wyndham
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