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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Name
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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Existence Fire Forget Passion Season
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
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Discrimination Human Humanity Life Reason
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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Heart Load Love Ourselves Success
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Book Eyes Live Mercy Open See Soul Window
The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.
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Beyond Excuse Knowledge
Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Artist Greatness Ideal Slave
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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Enjoyment Happiness Reach Resource Thinking Tired
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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Fear Ignorance Ourselves
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Admire Character Follower Imitation Reason
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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Dreams Himself Hope Realization Worth
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
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Anxiety Fear Greatness Life Ourselves
Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
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Friendship Virtue Weakness
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking

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