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- Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
- Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
- Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - )
- Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
- William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
- To be a saint is the exception; to be upright is the rule. Err, falter, sin, but be upright. To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. Sin is a gravitation.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Miserables'
- Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- One should count each day a separate life.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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