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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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