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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 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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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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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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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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