Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.
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We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
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Happiness ... loves to see men work. She loves sweat, weariness, self-sacrifice. She will not be found in the palaces, but lurking in cornfields and factories, and hovering over littered desks.
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Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode: it is rather a life.
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No real friendship is ever made without an initial clashing which discloses the metal of each to each.
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Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.
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