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Spend, then, the fleeting remnant of your time in a spirit that accords with Nature, and depart contentedly.
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Love the art which you have learned, humble though it be, and in it find your recreation.
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An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.
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Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.
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Ambition is of all others the most contrary humour to solitude; glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
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This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.
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For joy is knowledge in its completeness, it is knowing by our whole being.
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But music never has to depend upon any obvious meaning; it expresses what no words can ever express.
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Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.
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The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live, so that the longer we can stay among these things so much the more is snatched from inevitable Time.
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Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
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Work educates the body, as study educates the mind; and that is the best state of society in which there is some work for every man's leisure, and some leisure for every man's work.
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Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up effort in the past.
Theodore Rooseveltverified·The Strenuous Life, an address before the Hamilton Club, Chicago·April 10, 1899
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success--the real success--does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon how you carry yourself in that position
Theodore Rooseveltverified·The Conditions of Success, an address at the Cambridge Union·May 26, 1910
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Thus worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.
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But a man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body.