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- If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
- Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
- A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
- Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)
- You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
- If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself.
- Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
- Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
- Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas.
- Marchioness Townsend
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