“ Half of the world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness. They think it consists in having and getting, and in being served by others. It consists in giving and in serving others. ”
- Henry Drummond- Copy
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“ Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. ”
- Epictetus- Copy
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“ Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado, or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing the consequences, whether it is in matters social, political, or other. It consists in deeds, not in words. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. ”
- Albert Szent Gyorgi- Copy
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“ A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
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“ The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. ”
- Alfred Lord Tennyson- Copy
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“ Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. ”
- John Hay- Copy
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“ The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. ”
- Woodrow Wilson- Copy
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“ Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. ”
- Albert Szent Gyorgi- Copy
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“ One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. ”
- Diogenes Laërtius- Copy
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“ Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. ”
- Herman Hesse- Copy
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“ Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened. ”
- Gerald W. Johnston- Copy
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“ Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
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“ Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections. ”
- Archibald Alexander- Copy
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“ The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. ”
- Pope John XXIII- Copy
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“ To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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