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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
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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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success

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