Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven

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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

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There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart

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A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

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He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare.

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Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

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