“ Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance — the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs. ”
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox- Copy
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“ Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
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“ For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!". ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. ”
- Jean Rhys- Copy
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“ The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. ”
- William C. Bryant- Copy
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“ Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. ”
- Baruch Spinoza- Copy
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“ This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.". ”
- Sir Roger L’Estrange- Copy
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“ A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. ”
- Oliver Cromwell- Copy
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“ It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. ”
- Amy Lowell- Copy
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“ One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are. ”
- Hugh Hefner- Copy
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“ Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! ”
- Anna Letitia Barbauld- Copy
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“ Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures… ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
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“ See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very Tombs now vanish'd like their dead! ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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