Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Night Quotes, Optimism Quotes

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

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It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all.

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We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

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Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

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Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

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Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject.

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Optimism can keep a fool from accepting failure.

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There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

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Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

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Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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History demonstrates that participants in financial markets are susceptible to waves of optimism. Excessive optimism shows the seeds of its own reversal in the form of imbalances that tend to grow over time.

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

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He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age

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Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of atheistic optimism, based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle.

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Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

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The vanishing, volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the adamantine.

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