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It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.
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Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and–prayer.
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
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Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
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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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Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
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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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Give me the character and I will forecast the event.
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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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Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss.
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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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Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.
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We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.
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A book should be luminous not voluminous.
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