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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
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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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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
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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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window

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