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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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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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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Compensation Evil Greatness Lesson
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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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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Character Difference Man Nature
Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Greatness Principal Remember Warrior
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Blood Grief Tear
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
When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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Alone Friendship Home Sympathy World

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