Great famous quotes - Page 184

Adversity

To endure is the first thing tha…

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to kn Rousseau, Jean J.

Health

To enjoy good health, to bring t…

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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha

Success

To establish ourselves in the wo…

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To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful. la Rochefoucauld, Francois

Happiness

To fill the hour – that is happi…

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To fill the hour – that is happiness. Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Journey

To finish the moment, to find th…

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To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Beauty

To give pain is the tyranny; to…

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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. Steele, Richard

Doubt

To have doubted one’s own first …

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To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell

Pleasure

To hide her cares her only art; …

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To hide her cares her only art; her pleasure, pleasures to impart. Gray, Thomas

Prayer

To him who hearkens to the gods,…

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To him who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear. Homer

Power

To know the pains of power, we m…

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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary. Colton, Charles C.

Laughter

To laugh with others is one of l…

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To laugh with others is one of life’s great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life’s great hurts. Tyger, Frank

Laughter

To laugh, if but for an instant …

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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity. Bolingbroke