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Between subjection to the will of others and the virtues of self-help and self-government there is a natural incompatibility.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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A provision of endless apparatus, a bustle of infinite inquiry and research, or even the mere mechanical labour of copying, may be employed, to evade and shuffle off real labour—the real labour of thinking.
Joshua Reynoldsverified·Discourse XII, in Fifteen Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy·December 10, 1784
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We classify too much and enjoy too little.
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The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world
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Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.
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Anger is not only a vice, but a vice point-blank against nature, for it divides instead of joining
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet every body fools us out of it that has a mind to it.
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Great men, I say, often rejoice at crosses of fortune just as brave soldiers do at wars.
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Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.
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Observe continually that all things exist in change; and keep this thought ever with you, that Nature loves nothing more than changing what things now are, and making others like them.
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Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.
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The world does not count races and nations that have nothing.
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In that category before anything else comes old age, to which all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained.
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But we have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more are we capable of seeing.
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What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys' schooling interfere with their education!
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education is one of the most-quoted lines attributed to Mark Twain and appears nowhere in his published work, letters or notebooks. The idea's earliest known appearance in this form is Grant Allen's, in 1894. Twain was alive and famous; the sentence was simply reassigned to him afterwards, as hundreds of others have been.
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None other than this long brown land lays such a hold on the affections. The rainbow hills, the tender bluish mists, the luminous radiance of the spring, have the lotus charm.
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I was thrown out of work, and now that I had got into the habit of writing I did not know what to make of my spare time.
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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.
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The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.
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If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time.
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We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.
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Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.