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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. — Aeschylus (Greek dramatist; soldier in the Battle of Marathon, BC 490; Public Domain)

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. — Samuel Johnson (1772, by Joshua...

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon....

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint...

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. —Buddha (image licensed by Penn Wealth)

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul which have been restored or brought to light in this age, none is more gladdening or fruitful than this—that man is the master of his thought,...

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. — Paulo Coelho (Image Licensed by Penn Wealth)

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. — Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (1757, by Joshua Reynolds; Public Domain)

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one’s ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing...

The ability to convert ideas into concrete things is the secret of distinguishable success. — Henry Ward Beecher (by Matthew Brady; Public Domain) Let’s face it, many simply never begin to...

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do. — William Ellery Channing (by Oswald Chambers; Public Domain)