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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
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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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman
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
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
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
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
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
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
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
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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