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Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
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Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.
An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) XVIII, 11, 16 -
Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
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Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
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Happiness was not made to be boasted, but enjoyed. Therefore tho others count me miserable, I will not believe them if I know and feel myself to be happy; nor fear them.
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Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
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Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end.
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He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well who does it rather for the common good than for his own will.
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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
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He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
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He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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