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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.

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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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Relationships are like Rome -- difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'golden age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a n...more

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There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the smile on others' lip...more

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Happiness does not come from without, it comes from within

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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that ...more

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What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

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Once I knew the depth where no hope was, and darkness lay on the face of all things... But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand...more

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If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the nobility of our memory of them. With every friend...more

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Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the mo...more

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What is so sweet as to awake from a troubled dream and behold a beloved face smiling upon you? I love to believe that such shall be our awakening from...more

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When the sun of consciousness first shone upon me, behold a miracle! The stock of my young life which had perished, steeped in the waters of knowledge...more

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It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been wi...more

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For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm ...more

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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the d...more