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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
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
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Company Compose Depend

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