"The discontented man finds no easy chair."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

Franklin, Benjamin on diligence
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."

Franklin, Benjamin on debt
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"The proof of gold is fire..."

Franklin, Benjamin on adversity
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"An old young man, will be a young old man."

Franklin, Benjamin on age and aging
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"I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"When in doubt, wear red."

Blass, Bill on fashion   

"Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not."

Lowell, James Russell on gratitude
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"Sorrow is the great idealizer."

Lowell, James Russell on grief   

"The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market."

Lowell, James Russell on art
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"The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it."

Lowell, James Russell on ideals and idealism   

"It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves."

Lowell, James Russell on instinct   

"It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence."

Lowell, James Russell on intelligence and intellectuals   

"I don't believe in principle, but I do in interest."

Lowell, James Russell on interest   

"Grow old with me the best is yet to come."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us."

Lowell, James Russell on genius
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"Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave."

Lowell, James Russell on fortune   

"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide; In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side."

Lowell, James Russell on decisions
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"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action."

Lowell, James Russell on deeds and good deeds
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"Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor."

Lowell, James Russell on democracy
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"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."

Lowell, James Russell on desire
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"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances."

Lowell, James Russell on discipline
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"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."

Lowell, James Russell on experience   

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"The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience."

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"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle."

Lowell, James Russell on adversity
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience."

Caesar, Julius on pain
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Gibran, Kahlil on pain
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Jung, Carl on pain
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"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

Lewis, C. S. on pain
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"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

Moore, Mary Tyler on pain
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