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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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A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it…
— Immanuel Kant
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A writer judging his own work is like deceived husband - he is frequently the last person to appreciate the true state…
— John D. Voelker
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We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and…
— Sigmund Freud
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In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable;…
— Ada Lovelace
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The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home.
— Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state,…
— Oscar Micheaux
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Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by…
— Paul Rusesabagina
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I begin with confession not in order to feel miserable, rather to call to mind a reality I often ignore. When I…
— Philip Yancey
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I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually…
— Joseph Addison
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Perhaps it is not-being that is the true state, and all our dream of life is inexistent; but, if so, we feel…
— Marcel Proust
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Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how…
— Daniel Defoe
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