Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
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Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied. -
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. -
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There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done. -
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
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- The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
- Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts old age is slow in both.
- It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
- There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.