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- Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these…
- Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a…
- Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.
- What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
- First tell yourself what you want to be, then do what you need to do.
- Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
- If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse…
- Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
- If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know…
- Do not seek to have events happen as you want them to, but instead want them to happen as they do happen, and your life…
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