Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEWhen all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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