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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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