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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
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
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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Culture Run Simplicity
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
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
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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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
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
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Book Knowledge Value
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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Happiness Life Poor Possession Rich

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