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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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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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Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
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We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
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Hope is the best part of our riches.
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Hope Ourselves Rich
An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.
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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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The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.
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Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
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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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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.
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Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.
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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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Disguise Seek Sober Weakness
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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It is with charity as with money–the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
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In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.
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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it–to realize it to the full–to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.
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Feeling Life Mystery Understand
How like a railway tunnel is the poor man’s life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!
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It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.
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Winter is the night of vegetation.
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Night Vegetation Winter
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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