"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."
-Henry Ward Beecher
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"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.“
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction."
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"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away."
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"In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then."
-Arthur Bremer
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"My friends and family, especially my mom and dad, are always saying I should smile more."
-Dillon Casey
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"Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters."
-George Cooper
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"When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown."
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"We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile."
-Jay Garner
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"Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue."
-Sadhu Vaswani
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