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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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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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