Serious Wisdom

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• Change
• Charity
• Cheer
• Comparison
• Complaint
• Conscience
• Consequence
• Contentment
• Creativity
• Criticism

Change

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. ~ Henry Steele Commager

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Charity

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth. ~ Francis Quarles

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Cheer

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up. ~ Mark Twain (ig)
(You are pulling yourself down when you are pulling someone else down.)

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Comparison

Comparison breeds fear, and fear breeds competition and one-up-manship. ~ Williard & Marguerite Beecher

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Complaint

Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain. ~ Henry Ford

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Conscience

Every guilty person is his own hangman. ~ Seneca

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Consequence

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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Contentment

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach. ~ Lin Yutang

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Creativity

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm. ~ Earl Nightingale

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Criticism

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~ Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

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