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Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
Business is really more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind . . . more deeply. But it does not look as if it did.
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.
Who waits until the wind shall silent keep Will never find the ready hour to sow.
A thick skin is a gift from God.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?
Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.
The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.
If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence.


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Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
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