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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one… – William Cowper

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Not to understand a treasure’s worth till time has stole away the slighted good, is cause of half the poverty we feel, and makes the world the wilderness it is. – William Cowper

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Goodbye
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William Cowper
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Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected — for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected? – William Cowper

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Trust
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Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. – Eckhart Tolle

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Spend some time this weekend on home improvement improve your attitude toward your family. – Bo Bennett

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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts. – Ivan Illich

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If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them. – Bill Cosby

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Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. – Galileo Galilei

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Nature

The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep. – Walt Whitman

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[Marriage] …the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue. – Mrs Patrick Campbell

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