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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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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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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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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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