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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
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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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
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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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich

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