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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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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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