"Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert."

Forbes, B. C. on work
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"Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches."

Bible on wisdom
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"Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not."

Fielding, Henry on honesty
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"Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you."

Hopkins, Tom on suggestion
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

Milton, John on mind
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"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made."

Browning, Robert on age and aging
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"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one."

Hubbard, Elbert on mistakes
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"Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things."

Hubbard, Elbert on methods   

"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."

Hubbard, Elbert on memory
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"Life in abundance comes only through great love."

Hubbard, Elbert on love
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"Laughter is higher than all pain."

Hubbard, Elbert on laughter
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards."

Hubbard, Elbert on giving
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"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

Hubbard, Elbert on nations
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"We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for."

Hubbard, Elbert on expectation
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Hubbard, Elbert on decisions
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"A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist."

Hubbard, Elbert on pessimism   

"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Hubbard, Elbert on parents and parenting
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"

Jefferson, Thomas on equality
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"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."

Lerner, Max on cooperation   

"We work to become, not to acquire."

Hubbard, Elbert on work
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"Live truth instead of professing it."

Hubbard, Elbert on truth
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"The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before."

Hubbard, Elbert on teacher
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"Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time."

Hubbard, Elbert on character
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"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."

Hubbard, Elbert on suffering
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"He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much."

Hubbard, Elbert on success
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"The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game."

Hubbard, Elbert on problems
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"Play needs direction as well as work."

Hubbard, Elbert on plays   

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"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings."

Danielson, C. Archie on ambition
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"The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away."

Sheen, Fulton John on giving   

"A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day."

Maurois, Andre on marriage
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"The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it."

Bach, Richard on joy
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"In order to win, you must expect to win."

Bach, Richard on expectation
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"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."

Mother Teresa on suffering
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"Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future."

Borges, Jorge Luis on writers and writing   

"The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech."

Jessel, George on mind
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"Marriage is a mistake every man should make."

Jessel, George on marriage
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"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

Mother Teresa on disease
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