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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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Activity One Liner Sadness
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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Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.
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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Sun Time Truth
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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Imagination Library Ourselves Race Sacred Thinking Wall

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