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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Fame – a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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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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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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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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A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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A woman’s love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find no soil to nurture itself.
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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.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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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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