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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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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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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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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 greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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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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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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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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