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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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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Happiness Kind Man Reality
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Depend Himself Talk
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Greatness Prejudice Progress
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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Enthusiasm Fear Greatness Inspirational Man
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
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
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
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
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
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.
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Business Fortune Greatness Present Time War
It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Charity Money Stand
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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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
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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Determination Influence Oneself Relationship
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
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
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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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
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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