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#1

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six , result happiness.
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

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“It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.”
― John Adams

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#3

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
― Bill Gates

tags: reading

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#4

“One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious... Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.”
― Dalai Lama

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#5

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#6

“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: laziness, opportunity, work

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#7

“There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Way to Be!: 9 Ways To Be Happy And Make Something Of Your Life

tags: complacency, education, lifelong-learning

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#8

“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.”
― Peace Pilgrim

tags: power-of-thoughts

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#9

“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attractiveness, beauty, humor, life

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#10

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: excellence, foreshadowing, striving

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#11

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: motivational, work

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#12

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

tags: action, happiness, motivational, work

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#13

“Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”
― Ann Landers

tags: character, motivational

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#14

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#15

“What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
― A.A. Milne

tags: character, food, potatoes

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#16

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
― Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

tags: character, discipline, freedom

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#17

“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: freedom, government, politics

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#18

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrase-gary-strand

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#19

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#20

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, happiness

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#21

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”
― Robert Frost

tags: happiness

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#22

“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.”
― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

tags: happiness, inspirational, philosophical

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#23

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, pride

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#24

“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
― George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures

tags: happiness, inspirational, misattributed-to-chalmers, misattributed-to-joseph-addison, misattributed-to-kant, misattributed-tom-bodett, widely-misattributed

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#25

“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: happiness, life

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#26

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

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#27

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

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#28

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

tags: fiction, humor, love

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#29

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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#30

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

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