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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What we do not understand we have no right to judge

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

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

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Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.

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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

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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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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

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