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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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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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Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves

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