Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEMusic is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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