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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
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
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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Argue Character Discover Errors Judgement Mistake
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong

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