Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Life   
Time   
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Beauty   
Art   
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Subject:
Life   
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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Subject:
Life   
Fear   
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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Subject:
Friendship   
Spiritual   
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Subject:
Happiness   
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Nature   
Patience   
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Subject:
Failure   
Perseverance   
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Subject:
Beauty   
Money   
Capitalism   
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Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
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Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Subject:
Death   
Fear   
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
Subject:
Community   
Truth   
Health   
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Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Subject:
Intellect   
Freedom   
Fate & Destiny   
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Subject:
Intellect   
Character   
Spiritual   
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The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
Subject:
Art   
Vices   
Virtue   
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Subject:
Life   
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Subject:
Fear   
World   
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Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Subject:
Character   
Nature   
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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Work   
Time   
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Subject:
Faith   
Learning   
Prayer   
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