Category: writer
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If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.
Joyce Meyer
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
Voltaire
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce
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We are time’s subjects, and time bids be gone.
William Shakespeare
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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill
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Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.
Mark Twain