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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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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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