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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
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 are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
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
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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