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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Circumstance Happiness Pain
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Enthusiasm Greatness Inspirational
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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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
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
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Brilliant Intelligence Light Mindset
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
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
The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
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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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
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
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
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
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

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