Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

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Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

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Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

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The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

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At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul

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Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

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