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"A gloomy face drives friends away."
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Personal Development
"A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes."
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Personal Development
"Allow your mood to be sweet and your day will be sweet too."
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Personal Development
"Colourful autumn is a tristful travel to the pale Planet of Melancholy!"
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Personal Development
"The gloaming that closed over us the cemetery had crawled inside his skin."
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Personal Development
"What's a rainy daywithout some deliciouscoffee-flavoured loneliness?"
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Personal Development
"I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them."
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Personal Development
"I'm generally quite happy until someone tells me I'm not. I don't see how they know I'm not, but suddenly I feel less happy."
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Personal Development
"The morning was a wretched time of day for him. He feared it and it never brought him any good. On no morning of his life had he ever been in good spirits nor done any good before midday, nor ever had a happy idea, nor devised any pleasure for himself or others. By degrees during the afternoon he warmed and became alive, and only towards evening, on his good days, was he productive active and sometimes, aglow with joy."
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"Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable..."
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"No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority."
Legal
"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."
Life
"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."
Man
"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
Life
"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
Age
"Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion."
Power
"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."
Instinct
"I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.""
Man
"To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man."
Nature
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul."
Education
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