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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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