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" A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. "
Cloudy
Great
Sunshine
" A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. "
World
Happiness
Blessing
" Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body. "
Best
Friendly
Body
" Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. "
Even
Right
Day
" If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. "
Hope
Wise
Success
" Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! "
Red
Country
Greatness
" It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. "
Imperfection
Others
Quiet
" I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. "
More
Value
Gardening
" Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. "
Man
Grief
Humanity
" Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. "
Kind
Mind
Clouds
" Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. "
Virtue
Modesty
Guard
" Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. "
Heaven
Greatest
Know
" One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. "
Wise
Life
Great
" Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. "
Patience
Soon
See
" Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. "
Wishes
Be Humble
Wish
" Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. "
Good
Living
Reading
" Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. "
Reading
Mind
Body
" Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. "
Week
Sunday
Away
" The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. "
Life
Human
Enjoyment
" The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. "
Kind
Most
Call
" There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. "
Receive
Much
Nothing
" Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. "
Life
Hope
Three
" To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. "
Measure
Great
Faith
" True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. "
Friendship
Happiness
Place
" What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. "
Sculpture
Soul
Education
" What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. "
Life
Flowers
Sunshine
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