Wisdom Through the Ages-Book Three

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Happiness
63
Kindness
74
Learning
78
Life
81
Love
84
The Mind
87
Music
89
Peace
94

Politics
96
Reading
99
Religion
102
Simplicity
104
Solitude
107
Soul
111
SorrowSadness
114
Spirituality
118
Success
119
Suffering
121
Tact
122
Talents
123
Time
125
Wisdom
127
Work
129
World
132
Writing
134
Addendum
137
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Página 59 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 95 - DIVINE MASTER, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Página 4 - It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood...
Página 57 - I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Página 77 - On that best portion of a good man's life, — His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Página 34 - You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Página 48 - A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Página 127 - A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

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