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A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor -- such is my idea of happiness.
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conduct-of-life
contentment
country
happiness
life
music
nature
neighborliness
rest
usefulness
work
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Leo Tolstoy |
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[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.
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glory-of-god
god
pain
usefulness
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Charles R. Swindoll |
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I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
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contentment
diligence
generosity
service
usefulness
work
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Charles Dickens |
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There is, of course, this to be said for the Omnibus Book in general and this one in particular. When you buy it, you have got something. The bulk of this volume makes it almost the ideal paper-weight. The number of its pages assures its posessor of plenty of shaving paper on his vacation. Place upon the waistline and jerked up and down each morning, it will reduce embonpoint and strengthen the abdominal muscles. And those still at their public school will find that between, say, Caesar's Commentaries in limp cloth and this Jeeves book there is no comparison as a missile in an inter-study brawl.
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usefulness
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P.G. Wodehouse |
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He might come in useful.' 'Yeah. So's a broken leg if you want to kick yourself in the back of the head.
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unwanted
usefulness
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Iain M. Banks |
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I was not really surprised by what he was saying. A lot of people felt that way. Especially men. There was a quantity of things that men hated. Or had no use for, as they said. And that was exactly right. They had no use for it, so they hated it. Maybe it was the same way I felt about algebra- I doubted very much that I would ever find any use for it. But I didn't go so far as to want it wiped off the face of the earth for that reason.
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usefulness
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Alice Munro |
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God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.
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god
significance
usefulness
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Charles R. Swindoll |
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Everything comes in useful once in a hundred years.
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usefulness
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Katherine Paterson |
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Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.
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death
illness
usefulness
useless
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Diana Gabaldon |