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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
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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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 loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
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
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Age Feeling Interest Rose Youth
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

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