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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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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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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
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
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
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
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
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
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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Family Friendship God Mom
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Heart Romance World Young
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
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
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
Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet

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