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It is the last straw that breaks the camel’s back.

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Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
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Expectation Gift Happiness
Yes. He is quite a good fellow – nobody’s enemy but his own.
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Deep Enemy Goodness Quite
Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.
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Himself Improvement Man
Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
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Alone Life Thinking
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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Carry Philosophy Vice Virtue
Reflect upon your present blessings.
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Blessing Gratitude Present Reflection
Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
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Nature Season Spring Summer Time
Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
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Impossible Inspirational
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
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Deep Discipline Money
Never,” said my aunt, “be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.
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Avoid Hope Vice Yourself
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
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Beautiful Nature Season Time
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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Light World
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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Blessing Man Presence Reflection
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
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Oneself Self Love Wasted Time
A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.
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Change Heart Win Worth
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
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Darkness Light

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