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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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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result

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