The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn’t matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
BILL VAUGHANMost of us wait until we’re in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we’d wake up and say, “Anything I can do for You today, Lord?”
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Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.
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We didn’t used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.
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In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
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Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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Nor all America can claim him now: Forevermore he is Mankind’s and God’s.
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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie.
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Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.
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I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
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The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.
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