The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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 small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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