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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Frank [Zappa] said he probably would have been a major criminal, given his brain power and his attention to detail, had he not been a composer. But being a composer is not something you can't help.
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Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
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A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction in a lucidity so complete as to occasion no imaginative excitement, but young and ambitious students are not content with it. They seek the excitement because they are capable of the growth that it accompanies.
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Hatred is toxic to you and those around you. The condition should be treated with understanding and love until it is healed.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
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Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.
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When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
