"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character.……" — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
"Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds."
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10 Quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great…
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... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy,…
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The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.
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Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from…
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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful,…
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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look,…
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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt…
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The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked…
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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
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Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to…
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward,…
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
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