When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEAll men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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