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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Cheerful Goodness Live Time
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior

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