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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Cheerful Difficult Digest Mindset
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
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
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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Children Flower Life Necessary Praise Sun Warm Word
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
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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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
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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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
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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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
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
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Mindset One Liner
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
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
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
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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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
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
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare

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