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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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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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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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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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