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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
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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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
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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Circumstance Happiness Pain
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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Better Development Law Progress Society
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
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
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time

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