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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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 mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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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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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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