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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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