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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Growth Love Nurture Soil Woman

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