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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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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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Destiny Funny Greatness Live People
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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Act Carriage Character Dignity Proud
Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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Curse Death Existence Fear World
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
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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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
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
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain

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