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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Friendship Virtue Weakness
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Double Suffering Trouble
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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Fancy Flower Letter Love Place Quote
Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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Genius Hands Observation Talent Writing
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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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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Childhood Future Life Man Poor
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
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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Doubt Evil Feeling Poverty Respect
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Activity Greatness Happiness
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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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
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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Affection Kiss Passion Sweet Taste
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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Growth Heart Pursuit Search Severe

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