Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. - Thomas Jefferson

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. – Thomas Jefferson

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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler

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Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington

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You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. – Henry Drummond

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