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The fountain of content must

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
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Always set high value on

Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
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The true, strong, and sound

The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
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When a man knows he

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Do not ... hope wholly

Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.
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Your aspirations are your possibilities.

Your aspirations are your possibilities.
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What we hope ever to

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
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When I was as you

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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Keeping accounts, Sir, is of

Keeping accounts, Sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today, because you have written down what it cost yesterday.
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I look upon every day

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
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