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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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Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.
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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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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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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.
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Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
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The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
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Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
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Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
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In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.
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Something of a person’s character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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