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Grant D. Brandon

A successful life is not an easy life. It is built upon strong qualities, sacrifice, endeavor, loyalty, integrity.

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Jean de La Bruyère

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much; a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows, but which all the world does not practice.

Character | Little | Practice | World |

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Eldress Harriet Bullard

Do good. This should be the aim of every human being, to make the world better for their having lived.

Better | Character | Good | World |

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William J. H. Boetcker, fully William John Henry Boetcker

What a pleasure life would be to live if everybody would try to do only half of what he expects others to do.

Character | Life | Life | Pleasure |

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Abel Bonnard

Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.

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William Bolitho, pen name for Charles William Ryall

The highest part of the art of life is the expectation of miracles.

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Such is the infatuation of self-love, that, though in general doctrine of the vanity world all men agree, yet almost everyone flatters himself that his own case is to be an exception from the common rule.

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Christian Nestell Bovee

There is great beauty in going through life fearlessly. Half our fears are baseless, the other half discreditable.

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Wilhelm Büchsel, fully Wilhelm Karl von Gotthilf Büchsel

Orthodoxy can be learnt from others; living faith must be a matter of personal experience.

Character | Experience | Faith |

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Yosef Leib Bloch, fully R' Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch

Young people imagine there is great value in fame. Those with life experience know that in truth publicity is extremely short-lived. The nature of the world is that every piece of news makes an impression for only a very short time. After those few minutes the impression is erased and quickly forgotten. It is as if it never was.

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Edward William Bok

Man cannot live by bread alone. The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living. Life is something more than these, and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life - service for others.

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Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

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R. H. Blyth, fully Reginald Horace Blyth

We walk, and our religion is shown (even in the dullest and most insensitive person) in how we walk. Or to put it more accurately, living in this world means choosing, choosing to walk, and the way we choose to walk is infallibly and perfectly expressed in the walk itself. Nothing can disguise it. The walk of an ordinary man and of an enlightened man are as different as that of a snake and a giraffe.

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Christian Nestell Bovee

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength; there is strength, and they; are the; weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

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Grant D. Brandon

Jean de La Bruyère

Eldress Harriet Bullard

William J. H. Boetcker, fully William John Henry Boetcker

Abel Bonnard

William Bolitho, pen name for Charles William Ryall

Hugh Blair

Christian Nestell Bovee

Wilhelm Büchsel, fully Wilhelm Karl von Gotthilf Büchsel

Yosef Leib Bloch, fully R' Yosef Yehudah Leib Bloch

Edward William Bok

Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen

R. H. Blyth, fully Reginald Horace Blyth

Christian Nestell Bovee