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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
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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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain

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