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Quote by Tryon Edwards
To rejoice in anothers prosperity is to give content to your lot;

To rejoice in anothers prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate anothers grief is to alleviate or dispel your own. – Tryon Edwards

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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. – Tryon Edwards

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A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. – Fred Estabrook

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A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content. – Proverb

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Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. – Proverb

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Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. – John Balguy

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Divine Justice demands that the rights of both sexes should be equally respected since neither is superior to the other in the eyes of Heaven. Dignity before God depends, not on sex, but on purity and luminosity of heart. Human virtues belong equally to all! – Abdul-Baha

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