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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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
Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Beautiful Inspirational Transportation
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Economy Poor Rich
There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
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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Alone Communication Kind Man Time
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
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
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
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Food Greatness Material Music
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Man Savage Society
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Himself Influence Life Live Potential Work
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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves

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