"To spend life for something which outlasts it."

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"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."

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"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

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"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

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"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."

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"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."

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"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."

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"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

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"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."

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"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."

Karl Marx, German Philosopher

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"Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!"

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

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"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right."

Helen Keller, American Author

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"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?"

Tony Robbins, American Author

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"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."

Helen Keller, American Author

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