Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Encouragement   
Inspirational   
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
Reality   
World   
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Love is only one of many passions.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Emotions   
Human Nature   
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Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Happiness   
Beauty   
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
Subject:
Assist   
Charity   
Capitalism   
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Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Time   
Money   
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Subject:
Confidence   
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He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale."
Subject:
Wisdom   
Life   
Inspirational   
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So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Fear   
Action   
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
Fear   
Human Nature   
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Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Subject:
Enemy   
War   
Respect   
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Truth   
Lies   
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
Subject:
Freedom   
Poverty   
Virtue   
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Hope & Dreams   
Mind   
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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
Books   
Library   
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Hope is necessary in every condition.
Subject:
Hope & Dreams   
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While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.
Subject:
Grief   
Work:
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
Subject:
Life   
Community   
Tolerance   
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Subject:
Forgiveness   
Suffering   
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Life   
Thinking   
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