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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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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 determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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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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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet

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