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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Character Event Myself
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Fragile Himself Interrupt Maturity Powerful Reach
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature

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