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"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."
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"It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."
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"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."

"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."

"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

"Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are."

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."
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