"Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time."

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If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. you are comparing your lot with an ideal which is of course better and therefore you feel worse

— Baron de Montesquieu