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«Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.»
«Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.»
«Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.»
Author: Harold Coffin | About: Envy | Keywords: blessings, counting, envy, of your own
«Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.»
«It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.»
Author: Tom Stoppard (Playwright) | Keywords: counting, voting
«Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.»
Author: Dean Inge | Keywords: counting, votes, weighing
«Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.»
«Counting its dead by thousands, the hostile army, pierced and shattered in the clash of arms, shall lie!»
«I enjoy watching reruns of Saturday Night Live and counting all the dead people»
«Surely, nothing is more simple than Time. His march is straightforward; but we should have leisure allowed us to look back upon the distance we have come, and not be counting his steps every moment.»