Francis Aveling quotes

Francis Aveling quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.”
-- Francis Aveling

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“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”
“Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.”
“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness”
“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
“Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away.”
“Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.”
“Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.”
“Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.”
“This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.”
“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”

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