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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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All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is no evidence that God ever interfered in the affairs of man. The hand of earth is stretched uselessly towards heaven.…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The difficult tasks to be performed are not the ones that mean physical and mental labor, but the ones that you dislike,…
— George Matthew Adams
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The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.
— Albert Camus
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The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they…
— Mark Forsyth
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The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
— Joseph Addison
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Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God…
— Guru Nanak
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The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly.
— Ray Bradbury
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Loneliness is a hard thing to handle. I feel it, sometimes. When I do, I want it to end. Sometimes, when you're…
— Jim Butcher
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I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go." Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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