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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!

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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