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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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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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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.
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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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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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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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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
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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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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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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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