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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
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Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
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