Quote by Thomas Fuller
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. - Thom

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched. – Thomas Fuller

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Two things a man should never be angry at: What he can help, and what he cannot help. – Thomas Fuller

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[A] morning-land full of immeasurable hopes encircled him; he stripped his breast, threw himself all aglow into the dripping grass, washed (but not with any higher purpose than girls have) his firm face with liquid June-snow… – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death

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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. – Anatole France

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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. – André Gide, The Counterfeiters, 1925

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An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. – Author Unknown

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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldnt have been complete without you. – Frederick Buechner

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I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and Ive cut that way back. – Mike Ditka

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A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream – Ruth Krauss (1901–1993), Open House for Butterflies, 1960

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