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William Lyon Phelps Inspirational Quotes (52)

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At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat.
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
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If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it it would be, I think a cow.
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Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
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Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
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In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
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Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
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The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.
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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
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Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
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The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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Marriage is a fine and sacred thing if you make it so.
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How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.
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The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality [and character].
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PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
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God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
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If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
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Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.
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Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
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