Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEEIt 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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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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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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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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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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