There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEThe heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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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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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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