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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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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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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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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself

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