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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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