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Whoever is happy will make others happy.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can’t change.

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

It is not true that a man can believe or disbelieve what he will. But it is certain that an active desire to find any proposition true will unconsciously tend to that result by dismissing importunate suggestions which run counter to the belief, and welcoming those which favor it. The psychological law, that we only see what interests us, and only assimilate what is adapted to our condition, causes the mind to select its evidence.

So long as you have courage and a sense of humor, it is never too late to start life afresh.

Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate.

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word. Never get too big for your britches. Trust in God. Have no fear; and Never forget a friend.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God’s people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

Don’t be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Nowadays, we never allow ourselves the convenience of being temporarily unavailable, even to strangers. With telephone and beeper, people subject themselves to being instantly accessible to everyone at all times, and it is the person who refuses to be on call, rather than the importunate caller, who is considered rude.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else’s life.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.

Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.