William Lyon Phelps Quotes
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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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A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
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If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
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The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
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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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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 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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There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.
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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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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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In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
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PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.
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One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?
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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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Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.
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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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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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A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.
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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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I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.
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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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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.