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My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy is
here./ The time to be read more
My creed is that:/ Happiness is the only good./ The place to be happy is
here./ The time to be happy is now./ The way to be happy is to make others
so.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you.
Know and believe in yourself, and what others think won't disturb you.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning read more
You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it -- there's no turning back.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what
one does.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what
one does.
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the read more
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.
