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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Home
#Honor
#Job
#Money
#Remember
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
- William Lyon Phelps
#20th Century
#Disease
#Fear
#Life
This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Gentleman
#Possible
#Respect
#Service
If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Get
#Only
#Rain
#Who
#World
The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Interesting
#People
#Thoughts
#World
God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Earthquake
#God
#Man
#Me
#Stars
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Body
#Floor
#Like
#See
#Water
If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Chickens
#Painting
#Raised
#Start
#Would
You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Bible
#Human Nature
#Living
#Nature
#New
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Enjoy Life
#Enjoy
#Life
#People
#Strange
If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Impossible
#People
#Powerful
#Yourself
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.
- William Lyon Phelps
#American
#Care
#Freedom
#Happiness
#Man
One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Curiosity
#Intellectual
#Life
#Secrets
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Better
#Halfway
#Horizon
#Life
#View
Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Good Company
#Good
#Love
#Music
#World
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Anything
#Find
#Funny
#Loser
#Succeed
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Divide
#Forget
#Remember
#Two
#Who
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
- William Lyon Phelps
#Gentleman
#Possible
#Respect
#Service
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