Happiness comes most to persons who seek it least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought, it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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