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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
William Morris

Life, Happiness, Daily

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill

Lies, Worst, Half

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

Genius, Capacity, Uncertain

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates

Knowledge, Nothing, Knowing

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller

Happiness, Through, Purpose

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates

Emotional, Nothing, Values

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

Self, Above, Thine

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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
John W. Gardner

Happiness, Power, Full

True love doesn't happen right away; it's an ever-growing process. It develops after you've gone through many ups and downs, when you've suffered together, cried together, laughed together.
Ricardo Montalban

Love, Together, Happen

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Friendship, Before, Adversity

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.
Joel Osteen

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell

Religion, Another, Trouble

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Abdul Kalam

Dreams, Before, Dream

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde

Ambition, Progress, Ourselves

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin

Alone, Universe, Rather

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.
Charlie Chaplin

Character, Drunk

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, Knowledge, Ignorance

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust, Great, Men

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.
Bruce Lee

Nothing, Special, Easy

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Mahatma Gandhi

Hope, Heart, Tomorrow

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True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
St. Jerome

Friendship, Thinks, Conceal

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde

Mystery, Invisible, Visible

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens

Someone, Person, Brave

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare

Sweet, Mercy, Nobility

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare

Quarrel, False, Valor

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass

Others, Rather, False

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Ronald Reagan

Work, Hard, Why

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