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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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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
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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
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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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
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
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
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
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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Dilemma Greatness Intelligence Relieve Smart Success
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
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
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom

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