Quotes on optimism

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

~ Johann von Goethe

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...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...

~ Aristotle

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I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

~ Josh Billings

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Enquire not what boils in another's pot.

~ Thomas Fuller

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When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

~ John Muir

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That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

~ Thomas Carlyle

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When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

~ Akhenaton

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