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William Lyon Phelps
Age: 78 †
Born: 1865
Born: January 2
Died: 1943
Died: August 21
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University Teacher
New Haven
Connecticut
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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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A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
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A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
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The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.
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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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Every time you acquire a new interest, even more, a new accomplishment, you increase your power of life.
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At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat.
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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
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A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
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The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
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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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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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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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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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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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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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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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Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?
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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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