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William Lyon Phelps
Age: 78 †
Born: 1865
Born: January 2
Died: 1943
Died: August 21
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Scientist
University Teacher
New Haven
Connecticut
Mind
Walls
Pictures
Healing
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Beautiful
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I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.
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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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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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The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty to a dog it is the last word in despair.
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The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
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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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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
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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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A middle-aged cat will often play as unreservedly as a kitten, though he knows perfectly well it is only a game.
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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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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
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The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
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There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.
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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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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 highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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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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