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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.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.
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Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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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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Fear Goodness Greatness Himself Wrong
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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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