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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Education Institution Rare
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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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
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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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The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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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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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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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 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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Wit, like poetry, is insusceptible of being constructed upon rules founded merely in reason. Like faith, it exists independent of reason, and sometimes in hostility to it.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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