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George Stanley, fully George Francis Gillman Stanley

To live, mankind must recover its essential humanness and its innate divinity; men must recover their capacity for humility, sanity and integrity; soldiers and civilians must see their hope in some other world than one completely dominated by the physical and chemical sciences.

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Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

To miss the joy is to miss all.

Character | Joy |

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Zeno of Citium NULL

Virtue is worth seeking for its own sake, and not from hope or fear or any external motive.

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William Wordsworth

We live by admiration, hope and love.

Admiration | Character | Hope | Love |

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Yorah Daiah

It is especially important to express your feelings of joy when giving charity to a poor person. Show the person you are glad to be able to help him out. Showing displeasure giving charity erases the merit of giving.

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Herbert Sebastian Agar

Every civilization rests on a set of promises... If the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

Civilization | Faith | Hope | Wisdom |

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Edwin Percy Whipple

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else, that is good, is its own reward.

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William Wordsworth

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thought; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean of the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man - a motion and a spirit, that impels all thinking things, all objects of all thought, and rolls through all things.

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Zeno of Citium NULL

One should seek virtue for its own sake and not from hope or fear, or any external motive. It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

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Francis Atterbury

Few, without the hope of another life, would think it worth their while to live above the allurements of sense.

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Visvanatha Chakravarti, fully Visvanatha Chakravarti Thakura

The experience of beauty is pure, self-manifested, compounded equally of joy and consciousness, free from admixture of any other perception, the very twin brother of mystical experience, and the very life of it is supersensous wonder... It is enjoyed by those who are competent thereto, in identity, just as the form of God is itself the joy with which it is recognized.

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Michelangelo, aka Michaelangelo Buonarroti, fully Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni NULL

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; a lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; and death was safety and great joy to find; but dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

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Gamaliel Bailey

Any heart turned God-ward, feels more joy in one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised by all the feasts on earth since its foundation.

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Honoré de Balzac

Hope is the better half of courage. Hope has it not sustained the work, and given the fainting heart time and patience to outwit the chances and changes of life.

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William Blake

He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise.

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