There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
Grief never mended no broken bones.
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we’d give blood.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.
Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.
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