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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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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 sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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