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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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