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Good. There are many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
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Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it.
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.
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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
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Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
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Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.
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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
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Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.
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Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
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Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door
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Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
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Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.
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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
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He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
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