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Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Every wall is a door.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?