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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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Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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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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All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.
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The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
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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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A mother is the best friend God ever gave.
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There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
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Custom Freedom Resistence
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
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The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
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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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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Doubt Willing Yourself
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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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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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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Direction Mark Word
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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