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Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.
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Theodore Ruskin
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.
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Havelock Ellis
The place where optimism flourishes the most is the lunatic asylum.
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Lin Yutang
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
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Bertrand Russell
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
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Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
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A. H. Weiler
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
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Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Arab Proverb
After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile.
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Raynor Schein
Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart.
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George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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