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A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world: everyone you meet is your mirror.
Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
Religion is the opiate of the people.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Autumn wins you best by this: its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next.
You say to me-ward's your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
We cannot all be masters.
I hate funerals, and would not attend my Own if it could be avoided, but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.
I will not change just to court popularity.
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.


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