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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
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
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Cheerful Goodness Live Time
Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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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
When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Future Lost Remain
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
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Enterprise Marriage Satisfaction

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