Martha Washington quotes
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“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.”
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“Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.”
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“I very linearly [sic] wish you would exert yourself so as to keep all your matters in order your self without depending on others as that is the only way to be happy to have all your business in your own hands.”
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“I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.”
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“I am fond of only what comes from the heart.”
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“I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.”
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“I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.”
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“We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.”
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“I am only fond of what comes from the heart.”
-- Martha WashingtonSource : Martha Washington's letter to Mercy Otis Warren, wife of James Warren, from New York, (December 26, 1789); published in "The life of Washington, in the Form of an Autobiography", Volume 2 (p. 181), 1840.
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“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”
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“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
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“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics
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“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
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“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
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