Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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Success   
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
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Simplicity   
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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Subject:
Happiness   
Source: Journal, January 21, 1838
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
Subject:
Emotions   
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Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
Subject:
Miscellaneous   
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Subject:
Books   
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That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Subject:
Possessions   
Wealth   
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
Subject:
Education   
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Subject:
Beauty   
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Subject:
Fashion   
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Subject:
Listening   
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Subject:
World   
Tolerance   
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It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.
Subject:
Fate & Destiny   
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It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Subject:
Wisdom   
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The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
Subject:
Happiness   
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Men are born to succeed, not fail.
Subject:
Success   
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Subject:
Art   
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In the long run you hit what you aim at, so aim high
Subject:
Ambition   
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Subject:
Fashion   
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The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
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Cruel   
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