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Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we
think will make us happy.
Wealth is enjoying what we already have, not getting more of what we
think will make us happy.
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the read more
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men read more
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor.
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy,
rich or poor.
Say yes to your Universe.
Say yes to your Universe.
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is
to argue disbelief in the dignity read more
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is
to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.