Frederic Ozanam famous quotes

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  • I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  • Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

  • The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

  • Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

  • Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

  • Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.

  • God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

  • If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

  • A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

  • At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.