"We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on success
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"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on sympathy   

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"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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"Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another."

Addison, Joseph on knowledge
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."

Addison, Joseph on appreciation
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"Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense."

Addison, Joseph on nature
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"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."

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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 soon shall see them in their proper figures."

Addison, Joseph on patience
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"The less routine the more life."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on life
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"Love is a great beautifier."

Alcott, Louisa May on love
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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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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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"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."

Addison, Joseph on giving
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"A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants..."

Addison, Joseph on fulfillment
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"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors."

Alcott, Louisa May on education
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"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."

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"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on thoughts and thinking
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"Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty."

Alcott, Louisa May on modesty
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"Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged."

Alcott, Louisa May on happiness
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"A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative."

Ade, George on family
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"Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant."

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"A thick skin is a gift from God."

Adenauer, Konrad on determination
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"It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

Aeschylus on character
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"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."

Aeschylus on tyranny
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"When a man's willing and eager the god's join in."

Aeschylus on power
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"The reward of suffering is experience."

Aeschylus on adversity
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"I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time."

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"Drop, dropin our sleep, upon the heartsorrow falls, memorys pain,and to us, though against our very will,even in our own despite,comes wisdomby the awful grace of God. "

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"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties."

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

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

Aesop on enemies
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"There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES."

Aesop on enemies
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"Example is the best precept."

Aesop on example
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"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

Aeschylus on suffering
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"God loves to help him who strives to help himself."

Aeschylus on self-reliance
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"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority."

Adler, Alfred on inferiority
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"The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity."

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

Adler, Alfred on knowledge
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