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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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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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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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