"To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting."
"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges."
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Source: Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition, 1919.
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