"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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"Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!"

Burns, Robert on silence
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"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be."

Lactantius, Lucius C. on fear
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"Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on virtue   

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

Simpson, Homer on understanding
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus on gratitude
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"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

Gandhi, Mahatma on potential
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"No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important."

Ash, Mary Kay on praise
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"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."

Browning, Robert on love
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"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."

Arendt, Hannah on death   

"Some of us are like wheelbarrows, only useful when pushed and easily upset."

Herbert, Jack on motivation
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."

Gandhi, Mahatma on anger
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"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

Socrates on wisdom
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"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."

Field, Marshall on business
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"Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country. "

Madison, James on uncategorised   

"A computer won't clean up the errors in your manual of procedures."

Eby, Sheila M. on computers   

"Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"Action is the real measure of intelligence."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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"Let the ideas clash but not the hearts."

Mehta, C. C. on peace
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"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

Cushing, Richard C. on appearance
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

Wells, H.G. on history and historians   

"He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes."

Ross, Percy on giving
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"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell."

Kingsley, Charles on feelings
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"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on war
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"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. "

Plato on uncategorised
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"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul."

Maugham, W. Somerset on christians and christianity   

"Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with."

Fields, W. C. on smile
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"Train everyone lavishly, you can't overspend on training."

Peters, Thomas J. on training   

"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."

Harrigan, John on love
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"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."

Allen, James on work
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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals."

Trevelyan, G. M. on books - reading
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"Stupidity is a force unto itself."

Proverb, Latin on stupidity
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"If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner."

Barrymore, John on debt   

"God is only a great imaginative experience."

Lawrence, D. H. on god
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"The kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart --not something that comes upon the earth or after death."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on heaven
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"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."

Dixon, Jack on focus
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"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

Keats, John on depression
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