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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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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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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Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.
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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 happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
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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 at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
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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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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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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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To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.
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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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Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
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The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.
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PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.
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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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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
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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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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.