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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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
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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
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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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
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
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
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
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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Circumstance Happiness Pain

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