The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEELike the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest.
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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Few minds wear out; more rust out.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.
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It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.
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The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.
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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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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.
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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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