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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature

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