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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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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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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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