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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
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
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Mistake Repeat Secret Sound
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
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
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

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