"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on age and aging
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"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."

Adler, Alfred on caution
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"Man knows more than he understands."

Adler, Alfred on knowledge
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"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."

Adler, Alfred on inferiority
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"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."

Adler, Alfred on inferiority
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"Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body."

Addison, Joseph on cheerfulness
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"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."

Addison, Joseph on beauty
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"Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty."

Addison, Joseph on attitude
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"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below."

Addison, Joseph on music
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"Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable."

Addison, Joseph on argument
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"Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature."

Addison, Joseph on inconsistency   

"Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."

Addison, Joseph on humor
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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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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 of a few select companions."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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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 few discover."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Man know much more than he understands."

Adler, Alfred on understanding
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"The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live."

Adler, Mortimer J. on learning
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"Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts."

Adler, Mortimer J. on habit   

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

Alcott, Louisa May on adversity
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"Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on psychology   

"Our ideals are our better selves."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on ideals and idealism   

"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on friends and friendship
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"As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger."

Akhenaton on fear
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"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."

Akhenaton on doubt
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"It is easy to be brave when far away from danger."

Aesop on risk
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"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance."

Aesop on mind
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"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop on kindness
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"A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone."

Aesop on family
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"Don't count your chickens before they are hatched."

Aesop on expectation
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"Example is the best precept."

Aesop on example
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another."

Aesop on discontent
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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

Aesop on advice
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"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them."

Addison, Joseph on faults
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"Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm."

Addison, Joseph on editing and editors
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"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."

Acton, Lord on procrastination
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"Repeticio est mater studiorum. Repetition is the mother of all learning."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on education
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