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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
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
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society

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