Marie Corelli - The life everlasting (1911)

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The financial side is the only view people generally take of any situation.

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Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority — especially when that superiority is never asserted, only felt.

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In the renewal of life and the preservation of youth, thought is the chief factor. If we think we are old, we age rapidly. If, on the contrary, we think we are young, we preserve our vitality indefinitely.

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There is no more absolute truth than this — that each man and each woman must make his or her own destiny both here and hereafter.

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Perfect happiness is the soul's acceptance of a sense of joy without question.

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What the fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

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The one thing that humanity never studies, and therefore fails to master, is Life!

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Reasonable care of one's self is unselfishness, but anything in excess of reasonable is pure vice.

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Years... should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only — the bird does not know how old it is — the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!

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What is heaven? A state of perfect happiness. What is happiness? The immortal union of two souls in one, creatures of God's eternal light, partaking of each other's thoughts, bestowing upon each other the renewal of joy, and creating loveliness in form and action by their mutual sympathy and tenderness.

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Unhappiness simply means life being put to the wrong uses.

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Love must be tender yet resolved! — Love must not swerve from it's given pledge! — Love must be all or nothing!.

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Life itself is a continual battle between good and evil, and if it were not so we should have no object in living. The whole business is evidently intended to be a close conflict to the end.

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