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- Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
- George Sheehan
- There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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