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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
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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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Audacity Enterprise Planning
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
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Circumstance Determination Influence Relationship
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Element Happiness Rich Satisfaction
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
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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Assurance Faith Power Strength Strong
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
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
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
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 is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong

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