A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWords of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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