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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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