Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEA sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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