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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.
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Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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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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There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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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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