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There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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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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Character Difference Man Nature
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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Bad Book Goodness Oneself Writing
Activity and sadness are incompatible.
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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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Action Day Exception Experience Learning Ourselves
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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Author Criticism Hell Publish Suffering World
Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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Action Dreams Himself Man Thinking
We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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Affection Beautiful Best Ourselves
Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.
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Grave Soul Yourself
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
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Goodness Wisdom
A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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Attention Excellence Prayer Result
Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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Affection Death Kiss Lips Purity Soul
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Life Oneself Perseverance Sweet
It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Action Finding Nature Thinking
Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.
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Instrument Man Music Play

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