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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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