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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.
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Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
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For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.
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God bless the devout Christians of this country. They are Israel's best friends on the earth.
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Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower-Author Unknown People need your love the most when they appear to deserve it the least.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.
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I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I haven't played in five years.
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