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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

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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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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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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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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