A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEETo be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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