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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

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Minds like bodies will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

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There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.

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. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as...more

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind some pleasant assoc...more

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She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind are wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful p...more