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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Depend Fame Truth Word
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
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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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
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
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
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

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