A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEECheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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