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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.
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Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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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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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
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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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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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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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Depend Fame Truth Word

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