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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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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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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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