"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

Bo Bennett, American Businessman

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Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"No baggage - there was the secret of existence."

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"We must go on, because we can't turn back."

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"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."

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"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."

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"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

Poetry

"Wine is bottled poetry."

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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."

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"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."

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"I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles."

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"To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity."

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