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"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest."
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By Henry David Thoreau
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"He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy."
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By Tieck
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"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?"
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By Elbert Hubbard
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"However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable."
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By Eric Hoffer
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"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."
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By Samuel Johnson
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"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading."
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By Rufus Choate
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"Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other."
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By Luther
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"He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason."
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By Jeremy Taylor
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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
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By Epicurus
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"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
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By Will Rogers
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"He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher."
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By Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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