It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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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 greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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