Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEESomething of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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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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