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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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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
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
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
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
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
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way

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