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Great
effort from great motives in the best definition of a happy
life.
- William Ellery Channing
Stillest
streams
Oft water greenest meadows:and the bird
That flutters least is longest on the wing.
- William Cowper
Let
no man give advice to others that has not first given counsel
to himself.
- Seneca
The
highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation.
The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge,
and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede
from the other.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
Next
to temperance, a quiet conscience, and cheerful mind, and
active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and
happiness.
- Timothy Flint
As
you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it.
The more truly and earnestly you come to do anything, the
more clearly you will see you cannot do everything. He who
is truly good must be good for something. To be good for everything
is to be good for nothing.
- Philips Brooks
That
man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the
events of the future.
- Anatole France
To
live long it is necessary to live slowly.
- Cicero
God
hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our
life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good
thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this
hidden impulse to do our best.
- Robert Collyer
They
have lived long who have lived well.
- Woodrow Wilson
When
we are unable to find tranquillity within ourselves, it is
useless to seek it elsewhere.
- Francois de la Rouchefoucauld
Dost
thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the
stuff that life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
Take
the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do
well.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life
is a mission. Every other definition of life is false and
leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy,
all agree in this, that every existence is an aim.
- Mazzini
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