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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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Dangerous Excess Fire Passion Way
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
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.
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Bold Man Ourselves Past
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Fake Friendship Leaving Shade Shadow
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Beautiful Himself See Sight
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
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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Himself Invisible Muse Object See Worship
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Fire Politics Position Professional Reward
Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Courage Coward Diminish Resource
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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Greatness Life Small Sweet
Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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Character Observation Person Smile
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

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