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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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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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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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