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Joseph Fort Newton Quotes: Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.
         

Not what we have but what we use not what we see but what we choose-these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.


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Love is lost in immensities; it comes in simple, gentle ways.



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An egotist is not a man who thinks too much of himself; he is a man who thinks too little of other people.



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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.



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So many of us know what we are against, but not what we are for-what we disbelieve, not what we believe. A negative life easily becomes neutral and futile.



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