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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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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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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Eyes Face Light Love Moon Oneself
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Heart Money Size
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Determination Enough Establishment Failure Strong Success

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