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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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The great obstacle to progress is prejudice.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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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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When all else is lost, the future still remains.
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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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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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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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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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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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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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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.
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