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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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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
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I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth…
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A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
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Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.
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We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.
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The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of…
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The first and the most important thing is to know that life is one and immortal. Only the forms, countless in number,…
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