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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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