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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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