“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.
Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.