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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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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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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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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.
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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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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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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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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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