We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
Quotes By William Ellery Channing
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Every mind was made for growth for knowledge and its nature is sinned...
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the...
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No power in society no hardship in your condition can depress you keep you...
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God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and...
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How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.
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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used not to...
Quotes About Smile
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In junior high school I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress...
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My friends and family especially my mom and dad are always saying I should...
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When Fortune smiles I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
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We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror...
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us...
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Oh the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to...
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When you consider all the stars I have managed mere submarines make me smile.