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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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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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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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