"We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear."
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"Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things."
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"There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe."
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"Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow."
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"Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming."
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"In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are."
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"Nothing like a little judicious levity."
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"It takes hard writing to make easy reading."
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"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
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"And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying."
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"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."
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"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others."
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"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."
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"The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all."
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"In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!"
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish."
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"You seem to me to be a pretty lucky young man; keep your eyes open to your mercies. That part of piety is eternal; and the man who forgets to be grateful has fallen asleep in life."
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