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Charles Caleb Colton:Constant success shows us

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Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
by Charles Caleb Colton


Buddha:The world, indeed, is like a dream and

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The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
by Buddha


George Santayana:A string of excited, fugitive,

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
by George Santayana


Henry David Thoreau:It is something to be able

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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far moreglorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
by Henry David Thoreau


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