“The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings.”

― Aesop, Aesop's Fables

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“Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time?”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”

― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“True beauty after all consists in purity of heart.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

“You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“I wanted first of all to tell the people that I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had became a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“There are fathers who do not love their children; there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“The general observations treasured up by a course of experience, give us the clue of human nature, and teach us to unravel all its intricacies. Pretexts and appearances no longer deceive us.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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