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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

The years teach much the days never know.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.