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Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world–without friends or country, home or kindred.
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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,–like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.
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It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
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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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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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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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There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.
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Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.
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Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.
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