Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
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Passion takes no count of time peril marks no hours or minutes wrong makes its own calendar and misery has solar systems peculiar to itself.Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
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It is in the nature of all passionate and uncontrolled emotion to prey upon and weaken the forces of reflective power, as much as it is in the nature of controlled emotion to strengthen them.
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To Arthur love is a state, not a process an atmosphere, not a study an assurance, not a hope a fact, not an ideal.
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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
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