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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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