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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
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
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
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare

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