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Quote by Gilbert Murray
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. – Gilbert Murray

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The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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Poetry
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Gilbert Murray
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The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece. – Gilbert Murray

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Imagination
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Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. – August Strindberg

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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. – Pablo Picasso

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I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be. – Jamie Lee Curtis

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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch. – Ogden Nash

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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. – Saint Isaac of Nineveh

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What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. – Harry Caray

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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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