The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only … - A. A. Milne

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When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

A. A. Milne

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. . . there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart. . . I'll always be with you.

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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

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The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

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In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.

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