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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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