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Quote by George Santayana
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least e

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions. – George Santayana

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Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. – George Santayana

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Happiness
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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. – Robert H. Schuller

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I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment. – Paul Tillich

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The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesnt happen. – Brooke Shields

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When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope hes dead. – Judith Viorst

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But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. – Jesus Christ

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No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will. – Thomas Jefferson

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What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. – John Howe

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No nation was ever ruined by trade. – Benjamin Franklin

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