The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

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"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination."

- Voltaire

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"Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by the imagination."

- Voltaire

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"The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself."

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"Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day."

- Voltaire

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"Don’t think money does everything, or you are going to do everything for money."

- Voltaire

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"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

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"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."

- Jesse Owens

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"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

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