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For Birthday

With best wishes for a happy birthday.

Each birthday is a milestone¹ we touch along life's way.

May every special happiness fill this day for you and may the year bring everything you  look forward to.

Happy birthday, on this year special day, may gladness fill your every hour with joy to light your way.

May your memories today be warm ones. May your dreams today be dear. May your joy last through the year. Have a wonderful birthday!

May your life be brighter as each birthday comes and goes, with new happiness unfolding（绽开） like the petal²（花瓣） of a rose. Have a wonderful birthday!

The golden key to happiness, to health and fortune, too. This greeting symbolizes³（象征） all three of these for you.

Sunny, bright, delightful⁴, warm and wonderful, too--- That's the kind of birthday this wish is wishing you!

Whatever dream you're dreaming, may each one of them come true; whatever plans you're making may they all work out for you. Happy birthday!

Love is always my fight to you. Happy birthday!

Roses, sweet and fragrant⁵, sent to you to say, may each hour be a happy one on this special day. Have a happy birthday!

To love is nothing. To be loved is something. To love, and be loved, is everything. 

May you have many, many happy birthday and always keep loveliness and charm.

Wish you all happiness, health and prosperity（事业发达） with many many returns of the day.

Please accept my gift for your birthday, not for its own value, but for the sake of the thoughts it represents.

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

For Wedding

Matches are made in heaven

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting pint⁶ for happiness and usefulness.

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman.

A happy marriage is the best thing life has to offer.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Be kind to one another. This is the Golden rule of marriage and the secret of making love last through the years.

I know some good marriages--Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping⁷ each other, being good to each other.

The key stone to any marriage is one word: "WE".

For there is nothing better in this world than that a man and woman, sharing the some ideas, keep house together.

May you two always be in love! May happiness increase with age.

Best wishes to a wonderful pair for love and joy and happiness to share.

May hour hopes and dreams come true and may the years ahead be filled with happiness for you.

To the bride and groom⁸ love and happiness, love and always.

Congratulations to the groom, best wishes to the bride. May your path be long and filled with joy.

May your marriage be the beginning of a new period of domestic happiness.

May the love you've discovered as husband an wife grow richer and deeper each day of your life!

A successful marriage requires falling in love many many times.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

Mind, not body, makes marriage lasting⁹.

Successful marriage demands a certain death to self.

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For Classmates

Congratulations on your graduation! Wishing you a future filled with success and joy of seeing your dreams come true.

Congratulate you on your graduation and may all your hopes and plans turn to fulfillment and success.

Please add my warmest congratulations to the large chorus（大合唱） of friends acclaiming¹⁰（喝彩） your graduation.

Here's to the happy graduate for the job you've already done. And here's to a happy future that's a most successful  one. Congratulations!

May you have health, happiness and outstanding success in all  your ventures（事业）.

Sincere congratulations on this very special day with wishes that life's very best may always come your way.

May an old friend express his pride in you accomplishment¹¹（成就） and extend to you a wish for your continued success and happiness.

May your graduation day be the commencement（开始） of a continued series of upward steps to success.

My friend, I would press you all to my heart.

Boys, be ambitious.

Man can survive, only when he has the substance, man can live only when he has ideal.

Goals determine what you are going to be.

Great hope makes great men.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. Pursue your object, be it what it will, steadily¹² and indefatigably¹³（不懈地）.

Man who has a settled purpose will surely succeed.

Follow your own course, and let people talk.

Life is a leaf of paper white, thereon each of us may write his word.

There is a limit to one's youth, but no limit to his wisdom. Draw on the limitless wisdom during the short span of youth.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign（独立的） power.

Life is a flame, not an existence. Life is an energy, not a substance.

To live is to function. That is all there is in living. 

For Lover and Sweetheart 

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

What's love? Two souls and one flesh; friendship? Two bodies and one soul.

The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

Love doesn't consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

In the arithmetic（算术） of love, one plus one equals everything, and tow minus one equals nothing.

I'll love you till the ocean is folded and hung up to dry.

I love you to the depth and breadth and height, my  soul can reach.

For, you see each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Come, let me love you, let me give my life to you, let me drown in your laughter, let me die in your arms, let me lay down beside you. Let me always be with you.

I love you for the sake of what you are, and not of what you do.

Love is love for ever more.

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For Wife and Husband 

One of the oldest human needs is having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

When we first met we were tow people who loved each other. Now we are one person--- two lives inextricably（不分开地） entwined（缠结） and held by love.

Man's best possession is a loving wife.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

How much the wife is dearer than the bride.

A good wife makes a good husband.

The wife is the key of the house.

Friend and Colleague 

a friend is, as it were, a second self.

There is a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity（危难时）, we know our friends.

A friend is a gift, whose worth cannot be measured except by heart.

A faithful friend is beyond price, and there is no weighing of  his goodness.

The most cherished（珍惜） thing in life is friendship. The most precious thing between us is understanding.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Friendship brings beauty to our days joys to our world.

Cease to struggle and you cease to live.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance¹⁴（坚定不移）.

One man is no more than another if he does no more than another.

A man, like a watch, is to be valued by his manner of going.

For Business and Career 

A hard beginning makes a good ending.

Survival of the fittest.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The maximum（最大） danger implies the maximum hope.

Great deeds are usually wrought¹⁵ at great risks.

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.

Rome was not built in a day.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

In any contest between power and patience, but on patience.

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

For Success and Achievement 

Congratulations on your success!

You are worth of success.

Let me offer my most sincere congratulations upon your success.

Please accept my congratulations on your success and my best wishes for your bright prospects¹⁶.

Congratulations on your success and best wishes always!

Fortune follows effort.

Your diligence combined with your innate¹⁷（天生的） talent indicate a dynamic future. I wish you all the best in your career.

Congratulations to you and very good wish for your success and happiness in your new position.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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For Failure and Setback 

Failure is the mother of success.

It is always darkest just before the day dawn.

The miserable¹⁸ have no other medicine but only hope.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

If at first don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Preference is falling nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

If you fail, make failure a stepping stone to success.

Adversity often leads to prosperity.

The good seaman¹⁹ is know in bad weather.

Affliction（痛苦） and adversity make men better.

He laughs best who laughs last.

Fortune favors the bold.

For man and master of his fate.

Nothing is difficult for one who strives.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield（屈服）.

Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals²⁰ it.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence²¹（坚持不懈）.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

For Gift and Present 

Every gift, though it may be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

Small gifts keep friendship alive.

For you, Because you are special.

A gift for someone special from all of us.

Please accept my thanks not only for the beautiful gift but also for the good wishes which you kindly²² sent with.

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