Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.
Delphine-Gay de Girardin
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Need less:
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DAN GLICKMAN You can never seek the inner peace when you confuse your desires with your necessities.
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we have learned that the key to happi...
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THOMAS JEFFERSON Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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He barr'd from every use...
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Is judg'd a partner in the trade.
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Love mercy, and delight to save.
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In conversation overbear.
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My tongue within my lips ...
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Fair is the daisy that beside her grows.
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Love mercy, and delight to save.
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Are opening roses in the lily's bed.
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Now from the flowers exhaust the fragrant dew,
Wit...
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The want of argument supplied;
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But dearest friends, alas! must part.
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He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit.
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Through many a branch the founders of our race.
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I court no favor, as...
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And blame the mote that dims their eye;
Each little speck and ...
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Just education forms the man.
- John Gay,
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Love mercy, and delight to save.
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For envy is a kind of praise.
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JOHN GAY Lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod.
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Let Peggy wear.
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For who talks much must talk in vain.
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And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?
...
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Or, und...
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PETER GAY I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.
ROXANE GAY Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There...
ROXANE GAY Do like other widows - buy yourself weeds, and be cheerful.
JOHN GAY Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
JOHN GAY The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met, / The judges all ranged (a terrible show!).
JOHN GAY