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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 great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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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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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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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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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law

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