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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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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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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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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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