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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that g

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. – Joseph Addison

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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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Patience
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I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me. – Joseph Addison

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And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro nature, moulding men. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. – Anton Chekhov

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Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. – Eric Hoffer

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Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew mans nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere. – Robert Bork

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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it. – Cyril Falls

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It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead. – Mark Twain

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What the mind has forgotten, the body remembers long after. – Lilias Folan

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