The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEPleasure 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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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 great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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