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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
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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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
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.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight

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