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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Character Difference Man Nature
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Words 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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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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