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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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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome 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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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