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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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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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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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