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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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
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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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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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