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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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There are seaons when our passions have slept so long that we know not whether they still exist in us. So does flax forget that it is combustible when the fire is away from it.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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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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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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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
The reveries of the dreamer advance his hopes, but not their realization. One good hour of earnest work is worth them all.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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