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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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