"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, Dream, Hope, Act

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"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."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"I am born to win."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."

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"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."

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"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

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"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.""

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"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble."

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"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."

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"Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud."

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"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations."

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"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."

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"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."

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