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I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to read more
I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.
The reward of suffering is experience.
The reward of suffering is experience.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is read more
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.
He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad
and ought to be handed read more
He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad
and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and
friends.
[Lat., Qui salubrem locum negligit, mente est captus atque ad
agnatos et gentiles deducendus.]
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack read more
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and read more
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but read more
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?
