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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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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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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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There is probably no hell for authors in the next world – they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
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