I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady...

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady...

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down...

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be...

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be...

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by...

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by...

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to...

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to...

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments...

A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments...

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor,...

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor,...

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about...

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about...

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what...

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what...

In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we...

In life we don't know how many Love's the Lord will send us, but we...

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed...

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed...

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of...

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of...

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man...

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man...

Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what...

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a...

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a...

Men are only as loyal as their options.

Men are only as loyal as their options.