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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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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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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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