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«The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.»
«So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease»
Author: Dorothy Dix
(Columnist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
bad person, disease, divorce, divorces, divorcing, find out, For every, ill, panacea, persons, remedy, worse
«The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority»
Author: George Bancroft
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Government
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development, good authority, persons, property, public opinion, public property, rests
«Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever»
«This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
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air, alms, animals, argue, asks, church, church school, concerning, despise, devote, dismiss, dismissed, dismisses, dismissing, every year, examine, families, family man, freely, give off, hat, income, indulgence, indulgences, insults, mothers, mother church, mother Earth, One Family, open air, Open Season, persons, re-examine, riches, school, school year, season, stand up, stupid person, take off, The Re, tyrants, uneducated, uneducated person, unknown
«There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.»
Author: Adolf Hitler
(Chancellor)
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adviser, advisers, be restored, council, council of, decision, decisions, majority, one-man, original, original meaning, persons, restored, restores, restoring, surely
«The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
As Far, as far as possible, far, far and wide, friendlier, friendly, hostile, interest, interests, persons, possible, rather, reactions, secret, The Secret, wide, widest
«The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons»
«The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.»
«Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
make noise, noise, noised, noise like, persons, silent, ten, ten thousand, thousand
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