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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!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Call Conscience Fear Instant Law
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness

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